(DaemonEye) Psionics Handbook Companion
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Steve Conan Trustrum
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I agree that there is a lot of sludge being tossed around here. Why? Let me break down what I see:
Point 1: WotC declared it to be legal. All well and good, and I hope sales go well now that it's been fixed.
Counterpoint 1: philreed has a good point in saying that your text is familiar. WotC may have judged it to be different enough to not slap your wrist a second time, but seeing how close you can skirt the line without crossing it is not a good habit to entrench in your products, especially after this fiasco of your first release. In my opinion, in the future, you'd be safer painting your products with a wider brush anytime you diverge from the SRD and yet try to "fix" or in any other way mimic closed materials.
Point 2: People are still banging away at the guy even though WotC has obviously declared it to be legal. It's been fixed, the big dogs say so, so anything that may have slipped past WotC's filters is now their fault and their responsibility, along with the author's, to fix. The rest of us should leave it at that. I think some of us may still be picking on him because of our initial impressions of him and his product based on some of his early, less ... cordial ... responses to criticism. I think we should try to give the guy the benefit of the doubt and see how things go from here.
Counterpoint 2: Strutinan, your initial reaction to the problems of the past week has put you on the bad side of some of the people here, many of whom tried to help you and many of whom are established publishers and writers. You put your foot in your mouth a few times and got defensive about your errors rather than listening to people trying to help you. Just accept that you only had one chance tomake a first impression, to your peers and to the rpg market, and that chance is now long gone and the results must stand. Get over it, learn from it, move on and next time a) do your research and b) accept help when it is offered.
The rpg industry is very small and word travels fast and the last thing you want is your product to be considered the next FATAL. Some day down the line you may wish to undertake a project with someone else in the industry, be it a publisher, writer, or artist, and I'm sure you'd hate to miss out on it because all you're remembered for is this incident, thus getting a response of "oh, you're THAT guy. Um, no thanks."
Anyway, after this past week and the difficulty of this learning experience (and you'd better be considering it as one), I hope that your product does well.
Point 1: WotC declared it to be legal. All well and good, and I hope sales go well now that it's been fixed.
Counterpoint 1: philreed has a good point in saying that your text is familiar. WotC may have judged it to be different enough to not slap your wrist a second time, but seeing how close you can skirt the line without crossing it is not a good habit to entrench in your products, especially after this fiasco of your first release. In my opinion, in the future, you'd be safer painting your products with a wider brush anytime you diverge from the SRD and yet try to "fix" or in any other way mimic closed materials.
Point 2: People are still banging away at the guy even though WotC has obviously declared it to be legal. It's been fixed, the big dogs say so, so anything that may have slipped past WotC's filters is now their fault and their responsibility, along with the author's, to fix. The rest of us should leave it at that. I think some of us may still be picking on him because of our initial impressions of him and his product based on some of his early, less ... cordial ... responses to criticism. I think we should try to give the guy the benefit of the doubt and see how things go from here.
Counterpoint 2: Strutinan, your initial reaction to the problems of the past week has put you on the bad side of some of the people here, many of whom tried to help you and many of whom are established publishers and writers. You put your foot in your mouth a few times and got defensive about your errors rather than listening to people trying to help you. Just accept that you only had one chance tomake a first impression, to your peers and to the rpg market, and that chance is now long gone and the results must stand. Get over it, learn from it, move on and next time a) do your research and b) accept help when it is offered.
The rpg industry is very small and word travels fast and the last thing you want is your product to be considered the next FATAL. Some day down the line you may wish to undertake a project with someone else in the industry, be it a publisher, writer, or artist, and I'm sure you'd hate to miss out on it because all you're remembered for is this incident, thus getting a response of "oh, you're THAT guy. Um, no thanks."
Anyway, after this past week and the difficulty of this learning experience (and you'd better be considering it as one), I hope that your product does well.
rpghost
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Just to be clear, I think that WOTC gave it a quick once over and told him what was wrong and he fixed it. The fact that they didn't see those simular lines or draw a conclusion that it was copied text or anything like that- doesn't imply that they have given it the legal stamp. It's only that he fixed the major issues they had with it. They still may have more... but at this point he has fixed what WOTC asked him to - so we put it back online.
And yes, this thread should definatly be closed. Not much left to say here.
James
davewoodrum
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Telgian said:
...No, I can't sleep... your icon keeps reminding me of Amety--oh however it was spelled--horror movie....
"Joooooddy, Joooooddy...."
davewoodrum
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...at least it was just the dagger! It could have been all those tons of flies all over the windows or that black stuff seeping from the walls...
or that voice: "Get out... get out...."
or that voice: "Get out... get out...."
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