4e D&D GSL Live

[pawsplay]

What WotC Can Do: Anything they want to do, whenever they want to do it. And it's YOUR responsibility to keep informed of what they're doing to you.

What they have granted you the right do: What you can already do for free. They have essentially forbade you from copying anything copyrightable or trademarkable. Whoop de doo.

 

[Knightfall]

Heavily dependent on Pathfinder getting it -right- from the fan's POV, and others joining in with them rather than competing.

One risk is that every single 3rd party house will put out its own 'Pathfinder' like version of 3.5, leaving fans with a thousand different games to choose from.

At that point, any sane fan will go with 4E even if they don't like it...

Don't count on it. Then again, I'm not exactly, well...

 

[Clueless]

Huh.
Ok - is the website restriction only for those under the GSL aka - the for profit companies? Do they even have the concept of a fanpage anymore?

 

[2WS-Steve]

Other than the missing demons and devils, there is nothing in the GSL that we hadn't heard about before or were expecting (at least the big stuff, I guess the lack of full stat blocks for MM monsters is kind of surprising) so I'm not sure why some of us are acting so surprised.

One other small surprise -- you can't include a monster statblock like you see in Keep on the Shadowfell unless the monster is an original creation of yours.

This will make 3PP modules inconvenient since you'll need to keep flipping Monster Manual pages to figure out what special abilities like a gnoll's Pack Attack mean.

 

[Henry]

Huh.
Ok - is the website restriction only for those under the GSL aka - the for profit companies? Do they even have the concept of a fanpage anymore?

Answer: The Fan Policy is forthcoming.

However, if I were you, I'd start trying to recontact your WotC rep if you haven't recently, and getting the channels open.

 

[Rechan]

Do they mean that you can't license a website, interactive product or minis? Or do they somehow mean you can't use a website, build an interactive product or sell minis that are associated with your licensed product?

I can't imagine Wizards getting a bee up their ass every time someone creates a monster and posts it on the internet. That would be HUGE trouble on their part to stop anyone from posting anything they made with 4e on the internet.

Not only would the Bad PR turn so many people away, but it'd be a legal death of a thousand cuts.

 

[Alzrius]

Huh.
Ok - is the website restriction only for those under the GSL aka - the for profit companies? Do they even have the concept of a fanpage anymore?

There's going to be a separate license for fansites that will be released later. So far as I know, the GSL is only for commercial products, and fansites don't need to worry about it.

EDIT: Henry beat me to it.

 

[Shroomy]

One other small surprise -- you can't include a monster statblock like you see in Keep on the Shadowfell unless the monster is an original creation of yours.

This will make 3PP modules inconvenient since you'll need to keep flipping Monster Manual pages to figure out what special abilities like a gnoll's Pack Attack mean.

Yeah, that's what I meant.

 

[pogre]

I have to say, this is the worst possible situation...

This is the most disappointing post I have seen for a long time. I really count on Vascant's products to prepare my campaign adventures...

 

[Alzrius]

One other small surprise -- you can't include a monster statblock like you see in Keep on the Shadowfell unless the monster is an original creation of yours.

This will make 3PP modules inconvenient since you'll need to keep flipping Monster Manual pages to figure out what special abilities like a gnoll's Pack Attack mean.

The SRD seems to suggest that if you make some sort of mechanical change, you can print the stat block.

So I guess we're going to see a lot of monsters with class levels, templates, and/or advanced natural Hit Dice in third-party products (or they'll just change their weapons and armor and say that's enough).