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Oh, hey, this account still works! Here's my take on the situation. I think WotC is probably genuine about wanting to make sure D&D isn't associated with content they find distasteful and I suspect this isn't just the suits - it's probably the rank & file as well. I can't say I particularly...

Links should have hit your email by now, Rich. Let me know if they didn't. Anyone else who donated and didn't get links, please let me know. I can extend this offer through the end of this week since the guy in charge of this hasn't set things for print yet and extended the deadline until this...

Thanks so much for helping out, Rich! I should be getting a list sometime early next week and will make sure to get links out to you post-haste thereafter! :)

Haven't been around ENWorld in at least 5 years, but hopefully a few of y'all recognize my handle (and by my post count, you'll know I was active back in the day). Please allow me a moment or two to set the stage: My son is involved in a fundraiser to raise money for his church group's youth...

Haven't been around ENWorld in at least 5 years, but hopefully a few of y'all recognize my handle (and by my post count, you'll know I was active back in the day). Please allow me to set the stage: My son (Nathaniel Cooley) is involved in a fundraiser to raise money for his church group's youth...

Been fun in the past, but increased responsibility at work last year made it so I really didn't participate (which is no good for anyone) - and this year looks even busier (including other real life concerns). Rather than play even less than half-assed, I'll give it a miss this season, but...

At the risk of this being the wrong place to put this, I'm going to share with you what I'm playing these days. My playing group and I have all moved, have kids, etc., and I really can't play D&D any more - I have too many other responsibilities on my plate, and I can't carve out a large enough...

Or just PM me with some contact info and I'll see about getting you another copy next time I log in to check my messages.

As with the other wiki project, I explicitly give permission to include S.T. Cooley Publishing's stuff in here. My wiki-fu sucks, so I will let someone else who has the inclination and better wiki-fu add it.

*sighs* I was using shorthand. WotC does not own the ideas embodies in the rules. They do own the "rules as written" since the rules as written are a copyrighted work encapsulating a creative expression of said ideas. Regardless, the point was WotC can use the stuff they've developed in any...

Or, here are some things I think 4e got "right" and some things I think it got "wrong." This is all my opinion, your mileage may vary. RIGHT: Artifacts. They are now almost like major NPCs in their own right, and have goals, objectives, and (most importantly) are to leave the campaign once...

I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Not true. You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the way the license works. To wit: * Wizards of the Coast owns the copyright on the rules, etc. of D&D. They can do anything they want with it because they own it. * The Open Game...

Thanks, Alzrius. If I had any wiki-fu whatever, I'd offer to do it myself... but I suck at wiki'ing so I'll let more competent folks do that. ;)

If anybody cares, I hereby explicitly and expressly give permission for OGC from all products published by S.T. Cooley Publishing to be added to this project. Contact me if you need more information.

At first blush, I figured I knew the trick... Emphasis mine. On further review of their site, though, they have an MSRP of > 0, which suggests either (wild speculation follows) a special arrangement with WotC or possibly that they'll be giving them out free at GenCon. (end wild speculation)

Not true. And I wish people would stop using the "shorthand" of IP (Intellectual Property) to cover (a) copyright, (b) patents, and (c) trademarks, as it leads to much confusion. Here you are conflating trademarks with copyright. Case law is explicit that TRADEMARKS must be vigorously...

Meh. I strongly believe in the "Open Source" and "Open Game" movements. It's one of the reasons I jumped full bore into the 3E experience. The GSL steps away from this and requires me to give up the OGL. Philosophically, I'm not prepared to do that. I don't need a lawyer to review it to...

On general prinicple, the OP is exactly right. While I never had any publisher turn down my request to re-use their stuff, the fact remains that "Open" does not mean "ask me for permission first" - it means "permission is granted by default." It's why pretty much the only stuff (besides art...

This. I said something similar to it on the OGF-L list years ago - that I was glad Dancey had put at least one iteration of D&D forever beyond the reach of corporations or people who might want to kill it and/or lock it up (e.g., Lorraine Williams). Having read the GSL, I marvel even more at...

I'm currently busy with many other things in my life, so it's not like I'm an active publisher at the moment (I don't think I've put anything new out in a couple of years). That said, if I *were* still actively publishing, it is likely that I would not touch the GSL with someone else's ten foot...