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<blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 4201142" data-attributes="member: 10913">I'm disappointed they haven't answered question 8 - their fan site policy. I think the poison pill is not particularly poisonous. I do wonder how it would apply in practice to succesful lines, though. Let's say Green Ronin decides to make a 3e &quot;Guide to Freeport&quot; and support products, published under its &quot;The Freeport Setting&quot; line. Supposedly, they couldn't publish a &quot;Guide to Freeport&quot; using 4e rules; but what about a &quot;Freeport Guide&quot; with the same content, under the &quot;Pirates &amp; Mayham&quot; line? What if it contained 50% of the content? 10%? What if it was published by a subsidiary? What if another company wanted to license the IP and publish a 4e line of Freeport products? Forbidding the use of the same IP in 4e seems impossible to me, at least without the very supervision Wizards wishes to avoid. I hope the new license will lead to better reference and use of Wizard's IP. I think that it's likely companies would be able to reference, say, Mind Flayers - as that won't jepordize Wizard's version of them, and it would be easy to add the reference to the new SRD.For myself, since the license is revocable it won't answer my desires, so I expect to move away from 4e in about a year or so. But I'm not a publisher, and am certainly the least of Wizard's concerns.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yair, post: 4201142, member: 10913"] I'm disappointed they haven't answered question 8 - their fan site policy. I think the poison pill is not particularly poisonous. I do wonder how it would apply in practice to succesful lines, though. Let's say Green Ronin decides to make a 3e "Guide to Freeport" and support products, published under its "The Freeport Setting" line. Supposedly, they couldn't publish a "Guide to Freeport" using 4e rules; but what about a "Freeport Guide" with the same content, under the "Pirates & Mayham" line? What if it contained 50% of the content? 10%? What if it was published by a subsidiary? What if another company wanted to license the IP and publish a 4e line of Freeport products? Forbidding the use of the same IP in 4e seems impossible to me, at least without the very supervision Wizards wishes to avoid. I hope the new license will lead to better reference and use of Wizard's IP. I think that it's likely companies would be able to reference, say, Mind Flayers - as that won't jepordize Wizard's version of them, and it would be easy to add the reference to the new SRD. For myself, since the license is revocable it won't answer my desires, so I expect to move away from 4e in about a year or so. But I'm not a publisher, and am certainly the least of Wizard's concerns. [/QUOTE]

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