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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5586323" data-attributes="member: 54877">The only way I see older materials equivalents of DDI being worthwhile for WotC is:&nbsp;License the right to do so to an semi-open source group, which manages itself.&nbsp; Have all the data entered/doctored by volunteers.&nbsp; (And even if some of it can be partially handled via conversion, it will be a massive effort.&nbsp; It is always much harder than anyone expects.)&nbsp; Set up the license so that the managing group charges to pay for servers/hosting, whatever the license fee is, and a bit extra for research and development.&nbsp; Basically, a non-profit with a bit of a cushion.&nbsp;The whole thing might amount to nothing, but WotC would have given up no appreciable rights, and run no major risk.&nbsp; The biggest risk would be that the volunteer version would be better than their current edition, in-house version, making them look bad.&nbsp; But I'm sure a savvy management team could find a way to mine the volunteer version for talent. (This presumes, of course, a savvy management team.) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5586323, member: 54877"] The only way I see older materials equivalents of DDI being worthwhile for WotC is: License the right to do so to an semi-open source group, which manages itself. Have all the data entered/doctored by volunteers. (And even if some of it can be partially handled via conversion, it will be a massive effort. It is always much harder than anyone expects.) Set up the license so that the managing group charges to pay for servers/hosting, whatever the license fee is, and a bit extra for research and development. Basically, a non-profit with a bit of a cushion. The whole thing might amount to nothing, but WotC would have given up no appreciable rights, and run no major risk. The biggest risk would be that the volunteer version would be better than their current edition, in-house version, making them look bad. But I'm sure a savvy management team could find a way to mine the volunteer version for talent. (This presumes, of course, a savvy management team.) :p [/QUOTE]

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