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That's quite honest, and proper. I was just making sure people realize that some attempts can be seen as that. (For instance, when 9/11 hit and for a time car and furniture dealers would have graphics of waving flags and I saw an attempt to use those images commercially--maybe not meant to be...

The only negative from my perspective is all this time waiting for this to happen people could just donate and be done with it. And my bet is there would be overhead and delays--for all we know, the original PDF masters might even have been destroyed per the terms of agreement with WoTC and the...

Well, to be honest, I personally dislike any "let's donate to X by having a big sale of Y and all of our profits go there". It is in the best interests of the victims to support established charities by donating directly, rather than promotions that "give you something", as there are likely...

Actually I think it's sadder that Tolkien agreed to a bum contract to Saul Zaentz that didn't have a time limit and revocation rights. Most modern licenses have a time limit. It's these perpetual licenses that get people into trouble. Somebody could also try to get a license from the Tolkien...

One project I was thinking of someday undertaking is archiving all of Gary's public correspondence, including the messages I saved from his mailing lists (which go from 1997 onward--I save everything), messages from the message boards (ENWorld, Dragonsfoot, TLG, and others), etc, messages from...

I think there are plans for a bench, if not a table. As far as memorials, every local town usually has a memorial to famous locals, if in name only. So I don't see this as a bad or creepy thing. It's not like they're building an idol for gamers to worship. Look how many libraries and...

I know you were kidding, but I'd kind of like these threads to avoid going into that "build a dungeon/the PHB Idol" type of tangents.This is a project that will take some funds to do, and has to be approved by Lake Geneva's local government. (I'd hate for any of them to take some of these...

For those wondering what was going on with the plans to build a Gygax Memorial in Lake Geneva, the fund now has a web site. http://www.gygaxmemorialfund.com/ There will be announcements in the future about other fund raising activities for this project. (I think there are plans at GenCon for...

I was pretty sure it was the other way around, based on conversations with Gary and Gail, though I might not be remembering correctly. In any event, I wasn't specifically targeting TLG but the industry in general. I was trying to show you that "profit" and "success" are very relative terms...

Steve Chenault, by the way, is married to a full-time lawyer, so I suspect in much of the industry, "full-time" employment might be very dependent on what the wife does (if they are married) or what standard of living you wish to do. I think the amount of third-party publishers that can live on...

It's that time of year so I figured I'd bump this thread...

BOZ, I must say you are doing a very good job making WP entries on D&D related products and subjects relevant. Too many "fans" just put in things like "in-universe" entries, and ignore elements that the outsiders would like to be interested in. (Like, how well did it sell, what cultural impact...

Well, 25 years of many RPGs before the OGL was released seem to say otherwise. There were a lot of games out before we reached the 1990s. (Unfortunately, many studios like FASA, GDW, etc, died off in the 90s as well). The value of the existing OGL SRD is losing ground as more people move to...

Actually, this brings up another point of the whole OGL system. Out of those three, only Mike came from outside TSR/WoTC during 3e. The last three worked for them either as freelancers or as staff. I think one of the key things that hurt the whole culture of D&D (as in, designer culture...

I doubt it very much. Most of the real innovations in game mechanics usually came from games competing with D&D. Things like Amber, Nobilis, did a lot more for this hobby in terms of experimentation, as well as development of computer and card games. All the OGL did was allow a little bit of...

I really can't buy the argument that it would "screw up" game balance. The reason being, assuming we are dealing with the post-2e vast "R&D" that WoTC added involving probability, statistics, spreadsheet analysis, massive playtest, etc., you can easily come up with formulae to involve morale...

Well, he said it on the Gygax Games mailing list back in 2003. Yahoo! Groups

Gary was the one who refused. I remember this because Monte Cook once posted a journal entry wondering how dumb it was for TSR to refuse publicity. I posted his answer long ago on Monte's forum. The Scoop on why ET didn't have D&D - Line of Sight and Monte's Blog - Montecook.com - Okay --...

This was from their Volunteer Webmaster:

Why are you so worried about that?! You assume that it would be for 4th Edition even though it's pretty clear Gary didn't want to lose control of his property. The only way I could see Hasbro ever being interested in that is for Gail to sell the work outright, something I highly doubt she...