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I have to echo Piratecat here! I really do not like it when somebody drops out. Even a partially completed effort is better than no posting whatsoever. It is very discouraging as a competitor to not have anything from your opponent. I have had problems with judging times as well. Judging...

While this is certainly one strategy, and I wouldn't fault the business perspective that would dictate that WotC adopt this strategy, there is potential fallout from it. A true poison pill provision can increase the number of customers that choose not to buy the new edition based on principle...

It has definitely impacted my enthusiasm. There were just too many ideas and products that came out from third parties that enhanced my game for me not to feel passionately about this. At one point, I was running a game with 8 players and only 1/4 of the PCs were built using core classes. My...

I will sit this one out so Eeralai can play. :) One thing though, Eeralai and I will be taking the family on a vacation toward the end of May and into June. If the contest goes long enough, there may be some scheduling wonkiness. Just a heads up for you all.

To continue the complete threadjack - Congratulations! I hope you and your wife have a great time and many, many happy years together ahead of you.

It really isn't all that hard to accumulate 7 figures in development costs. I don't know what the pay rate for RPG designers is, but just imagine $50,000/year in salary. It would then take 20 people, working for a year, to add up to 7 figures. Now keep in mind that we have designers...

Sure, GR could do that. Heck, they could even revamp True20 completely. But here is the thing. With any sort of exclusivity, they will need to stop selling all of those established product lines once they release one GSL compliant product. So, which product first? And how long will the...

And that one is kind of odd to me. More from the standpoint of principle than anything else. However, when looking at the gaming market as a whole, that principle probably wasn't worth fighting for. It would take litigation time and the payoff would never be realized financially, assuming a...

Just to be clear, I specifically chose Adamant Entertainment because of the number of products they have brought to the market across multiple product lines and genres. Products that I think do a lot to enhance the market in general. I do hope that I haven't put Gareth-Michael in an...

OK, allow me to bring up yet another factor here. What about games that were released under the OGL, but were never actually derivitave of D20? As Gareth-Michael Skarka has asked earlier, why does Adamant Entertainment have to choose between supporting Spirit of the Century and D&D 4? The OGL...

If you are a CS, you should be able to update your profile with all sorts of verbiage. Of course, even with a CS account, you can decide not to accept PMs. Given the position that both you and Clark have within the community, I wouldn't be surprised if one or both of you refused PMs on the...

You are not singular in this regard. I would also hazard a guess that WotC has considered this effect to some degree. In the end, it comes down to an estimate on how much market share people like you and I influence. The fact is, none of us needs more roleplaying material. It is a luxury...

Just looking through the General forum and I see a topic on older adventure modules with good plot. And that makes me think of the obvious area that would be impacted by exclusivity conditions: 3.x modules! There are obvious reasons why WotC would prefer to see new development of GSL...

You are absolutely right, but I am still concerned with support for OGL games. Let me open up an example here and I will use Adamant Entertainment. My apologies to Gareth-Michael in advance. Skull & Bones was published and distributed by Green Ronin. I don't know the sales figures, but I...

Scott, Just to pipe up here again, I do appreciate the work you are doing. I'm not a publisher, but I am a picky consumer. I also acknowledge that I am in the vast minority of market share that WotC is targeting. That being said, I don't like the fact that some of my favorite companies may...

Well, almost no cost. By my understanding, Necormancer will no longer be able to sell versions of Tome of Horrors, Bard's Gate, etc for 3.x once you begin to release GSL material. You won't even have the choice to convert it from d20 to OGL, you won't be able to sell both. Hopefully, you...

Which is good business sense, to be sure. And I wouldn't expect anything less from you. :) Still, I will be very interested in hearing what your plans are as the whole GSL thing evolves. Right now, it looks like you will need to either update products in the catalog or get rid of unupdated...

That is my understanding as well. Which impacts me as a customer of several publishers, including WotC. It actually creates a bad feeling for me as a customer of WotC, since I won't blame those companies for moving forward. But it would seem to put a huge damper on the ideas of the evergreen PDF.

There was never an opportunity for anybody to pay anything. So, nobody is out any money at this point.

OK, what makes you think there is a significant element of the user community looking to be enfranchised? In the interest of discussion and debate, let me ask some questions. How would this proposal improve the user experience? No, more to the point, how would it improve my experience? I...