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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 4370019" data-attributes="member: 4682">I'm most interested in the fate of "official" fansites. WotC has for a while now recognized one official fan site for each of the retired settings (with the exception of Greyhawk, I guess because Living Greyhawk still qualified as ongoing support, even though LG itself was entirely fan authored after the setting book).From my long ago involvement with Athas.org, I recall the official fansite policy was that athas.org had WotC approval to create new material for Dark Sun, including release free rules conversions. Rules conversions were required to be written in athas.org's own words and could not borrow text from previous published material, but the entire setting's characters and unique monsters and cities were fair game for athas.org to write about and expand. If athas.org did make new material, then WotC and athas.org authors would be joint owners of all new material.Another clause I recall was that official fansites were required to not have discussion forums and to direct discussions to the WotC forums. Maybe WotC dispensed with this limitation because I had seem over time other retired settings set up discussion forums of their own, but athas.org lived up to it until WotC forum masters blewup the retired settings forums with some Potemkin village model of aesthetics.I doubt WotC would give such wide open use to all fansites in the future. But I hope official fansites are kept around to allow someone to continue publishing for the retired settings.</blockquote>

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