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There wasn't an AxE at that point - which certainly would have made things smoother. :) That can depend. For example, there was/is a nontrivial second-tier publisher set for Mutants and Masterminds. I'll look into it deeper. I'm largely concerned with this more as a root source publisher and...

Citations please?

Agreed. I think it will come down to something like in patents where simple/known/established things are not protectable but suitably unique combinations are. It's not so much "mechanics" that are protected, but systems of mechanics. And yes it would require the folks with the most to lose to...

At the time I joined the discussions, no, I would not say explicit. The louder parts of the (pre)fanbase did, but there's always a chunk that claims to speak for the silent majority. My mistake was assuming they wanted feedback. :) I have yet to do research on how CC-BY works for print and/or...

Sure you can. It's very simple. You agree not to use someone asks you not to use. Ta-Da.

Then you need to reread. That mechanics may or may not be protected is completely irrelevant.

This is a huge part of the problem with those discussions. The majority of the opposing side of the argument assumes exactly this, and that's just not the case. Most of the folks I talked with wanted to use the license for "root" donations, not derivative works and wished to leave fundamental...

I suppose it is, but that was the feeling given. Notice, for example, all of the statements of freeloading in this thread.

One view discourages a portion of potential users away, one does not. It is an exercise for the viewer as to whether those license users (re publishers/producers) are a loss to greater to the whole than the idea of not permitting them in the club.

They gave up that battle a while back.

Kickstarters come in at varying levels of completion. It's really all over and everyone has their own risk threshold for how far from "done" a thing is. Presumably the same is true for other platforms - folks who dabble in those spaces will have more input. The spectrum runs from "I have a...

My understanding is it's a force of the book trade but yeah, I dunno for certain beyond it was one of the last stakes in TSR.

I have seen references elsewhere implying they don't have that problem anymore, so this MAY not be accurate.

But not the audience for the platform. And that's okay. Ya'll are impressively hostile.

That's an odd flex, but okay. If you took that as an insult, it wasn't meant. It was a fixed year I knew I had been buying games and had to wait on pins and *&^( needles for things I ordered from Wargames West to show up. Substitute any year before PDFs and online information about releases was...

That's entirely your prerogative. Whatever fits your risk profile vs interest. I may be one of the last folks to treat Kickstarter as patronage instead of a preorder system, who knows? :)

Curious that you'd consider that an insult, but whatever. Nothing wrong with not being the audience.

Then you are not the audience. Wait for finished product to appear like it's 1988.

It's supposed to be a kickstart. Not a kick finish.

One thing that I see missed that should still be the case for WotC that isn't for small press is eating returns.