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I was unaware I'd been empowered to make that decision for other people. Wow! I am LIKE UNTO A GOD! If I say "I really don't like the guy who was elected. I think someone else should have won.", does that mean I am somehow cancelling other people's votes, or expressing a desire to do so? If I...

To be honest...I think WOTC saying at the 4e announcement "No open license, sorry" would have been better for all concerned than to drag this out this long, keeping a lot of companies unable fully formulate business plans, and then produce something which many in the field have said does not...

Yes, but it was hardly due to 3PP's not "Returning" OGL. When I look at books like Spycraft, Everquest, Conan, Grim Tales, the Green Ronin "Advanced..." series, and so many more, all of which are either totally or mostly OGL...it's hard to see where anyone could have asked 3PPs to do more. That...

Again I ask, how was doing what WOTC explicitly said you could do in "bad taste"? Whence comes this meme that they were somehow shocked someone would reprint the SRD, when the fact they could do so was addressed years before the PPH came out? I am much more offended by people bragging about...

Sounds like the intent there is to keep someone from doing something like World's Largest Dungeon, which includes every monster in the SRD, and thus doing an end-run around the "Can't reprint the monster manual", by arguing that you're just including the stat blocks for the monsters in the...

I want to make sure I'm not over-reacting. Let's say I decide to take a homebrew setting, like my Shattered World campaign (game is going great, I've just been too busy to upgrade the blog), and produce a 4e version of it for commercial sale. Let us then speculate that, somehow, against all...

I think it would be amazing.

Then you would never have seen most of the market switch to OGL-only games, largely abandoning the D20 logo and the ability to use the "Dungeons&Dragons" brand. You would not have seen Kingdoms of Kalamar, which was not D20 but actually was a "Dungeons&Dragons" licensed product, with logo use...

Pathfinder probably exists only because of the long delays in getting the GSL out... If WOTC had followed the path of the original OGL, publishers would have been working on conversions/new products for most of 2008, and there would have been a flood of support for 4e now, with promises of...

Please tell me, carefully and explicitly, how a company doing what Wizards Of The Coast said they are "welcome to try" is insulting, crass, and disrespectful. I eagerly -- and that's an understatement -- await your reply.

To my mind, the question is -- would WOTC be dumb enough to try to shut down people making things liks PCGen for 4e as non-profit, not-for-sale products? Manu shc products for 3x (not PCgen in particular, but others) either skirted the bounds of the OGL or danced merrily across them. WOTC...

On what grounds? Nothing IN the license hints at "fantasy only". To claim that a licensee must be aware of comments made on web forums which did not, in fact, end up as license text strikes me as legally dubious. There's a lot of legalese in there. Can anyone show me what in the GSL/SRD...

Just to be clear on the goal, we're trying to cut out a few hundred miles of travel time. :) Just getting to within a day's march of the target will be a big help.

However, how are things like the Druid class (currently on the front page) treated?

I am very disappointed that there is no viral content. I can find nothing in the GSL which specifically limits GSL products to "fantasy". Would I be in violation if I created a "Gunslinger" class and added gunpowder weapons? Section three says: "Licensed Products. The license granted in...

So, with all the blather about how 3x combat is reduced to "Scry buff teleport", I am finally high enough level to try out this winning strategy. Problem -- how does one Scry on a *location*? Scrying seems limited to a person, and we don't know anyone who is living 1,000 miles away where our...

It is known there are errors in the PDfs, esp. the MM. Even if this one isn't an example, it's still a good principle to follow.

Would it be too much to ask that, as a general forum rule, anyone asking questions about the rules rely SOLELY on the legal books and not on PDFs? Aside from being illegal, they're often inaccurate in lots of little ways.

No such thing as "arcane" damage. "Arcane" is a power source. I really don't see much confusion here. Perhaps "psychic" should have been in the keyword line, but it wouldn't matter if it was. It's an ILLUSION that does PSYCHIC damage, the cyclops is immune to illusions, end of story. (Same if a...