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Day Two of the WotC Gen Con OGL Announcement Watch has come and gone. And so begins Day Three . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGU1P6lBW6Q

I'm not so sure. They seem to want to downplay the importance of the OGL. Dropping the bomb via Twitter while at Gen Con while they have the chance to speak to a few of the more prominent potential users in person (those who are third party ready and can afford to be at such a show) makes...

Thanks. I might need that reminder each day when I check in. :) I've asked several people to see if they might get some sort of answer from those who are at Gen Con, so we'll see. That sort of thing might be just the way they'd handle it during a convention with no WotC panels. I...

Day One of the WotC Gen Con OGL Announcement Watch has come and gone. And so begins Day Two . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RM7cQCC4sU

Funny. That's my motto for getting in . . .

Are you really? Or is this you just tossing around "expertise" again? ;) And, let me say once more, $700 isn't going to get you anything but a guy telling you it's going to cost a lot more and that you shouldn't even try it given what he knows after $700 has been spent.

Precisely. To illustrate that given the limited amount of time spent on research, the less-than-adequate (in this example) lawyer would show his hand by mentioning something or saying something that shows he has done some research but not enough.

Same for one of mine, though it was 30 years ago, and it cost a meager $500. I say "one of mine" even though I have only been married the once because I hope someday, fingers crossed, to meet the wrong woman. ;)

I was already figuring on that, for sure. Yup, but without context it means little to someone who hasn't been following all the circumstances for a decade and a half. Research of the rulings and filings but little else, and without the context those filings and rulings would not put a lawyer...

In any event, the OGL Announcement Watch Day Zero has officially started! If anyone hears a peep, a grunt, a whisper, or a shout regarding an OGL announcement, I hope they will add it to this thread. With any luck, some enterprising convention goers will ask a few of the WotC folks about their...

I think any lawyer worth having would need a lot more time for research. They'd have to review any time in the intervening years since the inception of the OGL that WotC has even flexed their muscles (sent a C&D) and anything said by WotC employees regarding the OGL, the GSL, and particularly...

Much more than that, I am sure. Just getting up to speed on the last fifteen years of what has happened with the OGL and the GSL would take hours and hours and hours with numerous people in the firm at various levels attached to the project. Any lawyer who would half-ass something that might...

So, Gen Con announcement for the OGL? Who thinks "Yes" and who thinks "No?"

I've done it with PCs and NPCs. It works out very well, I have found.

The point is actually two-fold from my perspective, the first being that corporate culture with disposable employees is not a good thing for people or society (IMO) despite it being an expedient way to develop and sell products while the second being that the callousness I see exhibited by some...

Well said! The ones we don't know or like probably deserve it. Their spouses might even already have a job (job-hoarding is despicable!) and their kids won't need educations for the coming service-based-only economy anyway. Once again, you've summed up your position nicely.

Thanks. Just tried it again. Still works for me. Not registered on the site or anything.

Claudia Alexander has passed. http://www.space.com/30006-claudia-alexander-nasa-jupiter-mission-obituary.html

Ouch! Yeah, that's a bad break. When I use a whole big map, I like to cover up portions with cardstock and reveal it like a fog of war. Can you make it less obvious in that way somehow? Check this blog post here for an example -...

Oh, you magnificent bastard! :D