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Note those are TRADEMARK licenses and should be compared to the STL, not the OGL. The think about the OGL is that you *can't* screw over people who want to use your stuff -- the viral nature of it means that anything you derive from open content is open. You can create branding/product identity...

Uhm...having to make tactical decisions with no clear "right" answer isn't a flaw. It's a damn nice feature.

If this is "as far as you know", you don't know very far, and that pretty much calls your ability to make useful judgments about the OGL into serious doubt. Try "none of the same people are involved". Not Peter Adkison, not Ryan Dancey, not Anthony Valterra. Pretty much everyone who supported...

I feel your pain. I've got way too many projects which were written, submitted, approved...and died. I'm still irked Waysides never came out...I really liked my taverns for that.

Well, neither movie was made by WOTC, and I know the first one was more-or-less made over their objections, but there was no way to get the rights back. (I remember that when it came out, some ranters used it as "proof" WOTC was eeeeevil, because the movie was "their idea of what D&D should be"...

Like Luke approaching the Death Star...

I'm going to guess the Gleemax situation is part of it. I'm going to assume that kept everybody involved with anything to do with "community" or "marketing" pretty busy. Also, with GenCon coming up, that's got to be the busy season for anyone whose job is dealing with the public. Coordinating...

Yeah, I'm sure they'll enjoy the profits from the licensing fees the GSL imposes...

GURPS, Hero, D6, True20...I prefer generic systems because I am primarily a worldbuilder and do not like systems which assume a given setting.

This makes sense, but then, what's the point of "until the end of your next turn"? I can see it for conditions like Immobilized which don't have a generic "end this condition by this action" available to all, but is there a difference between, say: "Attack +2 vs. Reflex, and target is knocked...

Downed, sure, but it's possible -- albeit unlikely -- to actually be killed in one shot. If I am at 1 hit point and am hit with enough damage to drop me to -1/2 my hit points, I am deceased, not downed. (It's more likely if you consider I might be hit by multiple effects between my action and my...

Well, my hat of e4 know no limit (OK, not really...) but I've been very impressed with the Dragon articles. I've heard few real criticisms of them; they've been well written, imaginative, full of useful crunch, and say, to me, "This is what 4e could have been like if we weren't forced to fit a...

Looking at Cheetah's Rake (Ranger 17), but it's a general question: If an effect lasts "until the end of your next turn", does that mean the person affected can do nothing about it? i.e, I use CR and knock the ogre prone. The ogre's initiative comes up. As I read it, he *cannot* attempt to...

Unless one assumes, based on nothing, that various WOTC people are outright lying about 4e sales, it seems 4e can only be considered a success in terms of books sold. The question, though, is how much of the business plan is based on DDI. If the idea was "We will make a decent profit on the...

Or it might be, "Wow! Look at how many copies of 4e we sold! This 'tabletop RPG' thing might not be as dead as we thought; get everyone focused on it, pronto!"

I completely (Heart) Rolemaster, but it scares off so many people I'm unlikely to play it. The 1995 revision -- RMSS -- is probably the best, as it fixes several issues with the older version (namely, first level characters are fairly survivable) while still retaining a lot of the detail. It...

Major condolences, dude. Looks like some marketroid rolled on the Random Buzzword Table and got "Refocus on our core competencies." Next time, they might roll "Expand into new market spaces" and it will all start over again... I do see some good coming from this; as I noted over in the GSL...

This may have something to do with the delay: http://www.gleemax.com/Comms/Pages/Communities/BlogPost.aspx?blogpostid=96074&pagemode=2&blogid=2158 Without gleemax, any proposed fan site policy might be more liberal, as there is no longer any reason for WOTC to consider MyCoolDnDSite.com a...

re:Free Beta Damn, Paizo is Pure Class. (I will be buying the hardcopy at GenCon and DLing the PDF for use on my laptop. Win/win!) Will the Beta include monsters, or is it basically the PHB+DMG?

Thanks. That makes things more clear, and it means the TWF feats are useful for 2BS Ranger. Excellent.