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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dias Ex Machina" data-source="post: 4322249" data-attributes="member: 58907">Turanil, Turanil.  You still haven't read the book, have you?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  The Amethyst book at 393 pages and is probably 80% fluff.  It is not rule heavy.  If we pulled the rules out, it would still be close to a 300 page book, which would be more than enough for some people for the initial book in a campaign setting.  The largest Freeport book is not even close to 300 pages, so I think Amethyst has the fluff portion covered.The 3.5 edition will remain on sale until a 4ED is released OR until we switch over to a 3.5 OGL OR until the deadline of January 1st 2009 (whichever comes first).Our opinion on 4ED is that it is making us actually be more original.  For those that have read the current edition book, we hardly refer to elves as elves (mostly in the framing fiction).  They are called Damaskans, Tenenbri, etc.  Dwarves are Narros and Halflings are Gimfen.  So we were already halfway there already.  Since we are able to "remove" entries outright from the GSL, it allows us to delete classes and races that don't work and replace them with those that do, as long as we rename them as something wholly unique.  We plan on doing the same to our "Demons" and "Fey" races as well, referring to them by "their" names rather than "our" names. Have you also really read the 4ED?  Their Ranger is close to what we were did with OUR ranger prestige class and our Paladin prestige class and their Warlord are near photocopies in premise.  Reading through, we realized we would have to make fewer compromises with the setting than we did with the 3.5 and the GSL is making us stay original and distinct.  I will admit some people will claim we are really bending the GSL or taking a liberty with the interpretation but we believe the GSL is made protect WOTC more than to lay a trap for blossoming 3P publishers.I had a post on <a href="http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=1048757" target="_blank">Gleemax</a> dealing with that.Like I said, we'll go into more details on the podcast we're recording for Tuesday.</blockquote>

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