Arms & Armor Open Call
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Spike Y Jones
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Ghostwind said:By the way, doesn't anyone bother to use spell and grammar check when you submit stuff? Sheesh...
We wanted to give the editor a workout.
Spike Y Jones
Spike Y Jones
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Napftor said:
Steve's lucky this was an armour and weapons book, so he was spared the Flying Gateleg Table that's sitting in my "have yet to find a publisher for" files.
Spike Y Jones
Spike Y Jones
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Selling Your PC's Name
I'd wanted to say something about this before, but didn't get around to it.
If you put the name of a favourite character into a spell name that is then sold to a publisher, the character doesn't become the property of the publisher, just his name; you can still use the character in your own campaigns. You can even still publish his adventures on your website or wherever, although in this case you'd need to change his name (maybe only slightly: Almuric to Almarac).
And if you sold the name in a spell for a D20 System complilation, you still may be in luck. If the publisher declares the name to be Open Content (and Bastion Press, the subject of this thread, is a very Open-Content-friendly publisher), then you don't have to resort to changing the name when you use it: You just have to include the book's copyright info in the Section 15 notice of the OGL page on your website.
Spike Y Jones, who sold one of his favourite PCs to Atlas Games a year ago, but who can still play him whenever he wants
KingOfChaos said:
I'd wanted to say something about this before, but didn't get around to it.
If you put the name of a favourite character into a spell name that is then sold to a publisher, the character doesn't become the property of the publisher, just his name; you can still use the character in your own campaigns. You can even still publish his adventures on your website or wherever, although in this case you'd need to change his name (maybe only slightly: Almuric to Almarac).
And if you sold the name in a spell for a D20 System complilation, you still may be in luck. If the publisher declares the name to be Open Content (and Bastion Press, the subject of this thread, is a very Open-Content-friendly publisher), then you don't have to resort to changing the name when you use it: You just have to include the book's copyright info in the Section 15 notice of the OGL page on your website.
Spike Y Jones, who sold one of his favourite PCs to Atlas Games a year ago, but who can still play him whenever he wants
BrooklynKnight
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Hey! My submission was looked over by a credited editor! It was clean! Very clean, and i dont have long hair either! 
Varianor Abroad
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Spike Y Jones said:
Would that I had the time! 15 new qualities and items. But at least I got it in before the deadline. Spike, how are you?* Sorry to hear that you sold your PC to a game company. Good thing you don't have to pay royalties eh?
*Who is this guy? It's Bill Collins from Nice Reality Ya Got Here, back in the days of All of the Above, the GURPS apa.
inkmonkeys
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Ghostwind said:By the way, doesn't anyone bother to use spell and grammar check when you submit stuff? Sheesh...
Sorry, my partner did the final draft. Enjoy!
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