D&D in National Review!

[BiggusGeekus]

http://www.nationalreview.com/miller/miller200410151029.asp

Caveat: The National Review is a highly political site. But I'm just jazzed to see an former gamer coming back to the hobby.

 

[The_Universe]

That was awesome. Thanks for the link!

When does the 30th Anniversary book hit the shelves? Anybody know?

 

[Rasyr]

Pretty good article, except that there is a big mistake in it...

There's another important innovation. "We learned a lesson from Microsoft and opened up our system," says Stark. "Anybody can use it."

The OGL was based on the GPL and other open source licenses, which most definitely has nothing to do with Microsoft.

 

[Henry]

Pretty good article, except that there is a big mistake in it...

The OGL was based on the GPL and other open source licenses, which most definitely has nothing to do with Microsoft.

I think that was Ed Stark's point. It was more on what they learned from what Microsoft DIDN'T do.

 

[KB9JMQ]

That was a cool read BG, thanks for posting the link.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Wow. He and I may be the only ones to actually own Free City of Haven...

And he establishes his D&D bonafides with me by talking about his 1st edition books are all held together with duct tape.

 

[Nisarg]

Discussion of some of the article's political aspects removed by moderator

But hey, I discovered that Steve Colbert is a gamer, that's cool..

Nisarg

 

[MonsterMash]

Of course with such a close race how long till we get a bid for the gamer vote from one side or the other?

 

[LordVyreth]

Wow, it is cool that Steve is a gamer. Now a member of Barenaked Ladies is less of a surprise, but still good to know.

 

[drothgery]

Pretty good article, except that there is a big mistake in it...

The OGL was based on the GPL and other open source licenses, which most definitely has nothing to do with Microsoft.

The d20 setup, where a commercial entity controls the core IP, and sells products based on that for profit, and makes a library available for free so that others can build on top of it, seems a lot more like Windows and .NET to me than the whole Linux/Open Source setup. The naming of license, and the way Ryan Dancy talked about things, tried to evoke Open Source imagery, but they were really trying to emulate Windows, not Linux.