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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tav_Behemoth" data-source="post: 1534449" data-attributes="member: 18017">I eats more chicken/Than any man's seen - Howlin' Wolf, "Back Door Man"Behemoth3 is a small publisher, and we're betting our entire yearly Top Ramen budget on the proposition that file sharing is the best thing that can possibly happen to us. From our <a href="http://www.behemoth3.com/sword/" target="_blank">website</a>: The SwoRD Project is intended to encourage publishers to freely share the content that, under the Open Gaming License, is already community property. Its innovation is to maintain a link from the open content back to the source it comes from, so that if you like what you see you're only a click away from buying the book and getting more good stuff like it. For publishers releasing SwoRD hypertexts, file sharing is an ally instead of an enemy because everyone who's introduced to your work becomes a potential customer.Behemoth3's business model is like the neighborhood drug pusher's: the first taste is free, because we're betting that you'll quickly get hooked. The open content in our SwoRD hypertext is linked to product identity that helps it come to life in your imagination as well as at your gaming table--illustrations, fiction, character histories and motivations, all the rich details that make roleplaying more than a game. Becoming a registered owner of a Masters and Minions product also gives you access to our <a href="http://www.behemoth3.com/vorpal/" target="_blank">Vorpal</a> suite of online gaming tools that are custom designed to work with our new material. You don't need either the product identity or the Vorpal enhancements to use the free open content in our SwoRD releases, but we're betting that access to these extras will make it worth your while to buy the Horde Book (in either its print or PDF incarnations) to take the content you're already enjoying to the next level.The greatest strength of d20 is that it is an enterprise open to the entire community, and the same is true of the SwoRD Project. We think that SwoRD hypertext releases are a good idea, so we want to give that idea away for free and get as many people using it as possible! If you're a <a href="http://www.behemoth3.com/downloads/SwoRD_Project_Description.rtf" target="_blank">publisher</a> with open content you'd like to release as a SwoRD hypertext, or if you're a gamer who wants to help our industry embrace the full possibilities of the Open Gaming movement instead of trying to put the genie back in the bottle, our <a href="http://www.behemoth3.com/forum/index.php?c=4" target="_blank">forum</a> is intended to serve as a meeting point for discussion and collaboration.</blockquote>

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