First 3rd Party Product available already...

[hong]

Low production values? It's not shiny enough?

Looks pretty shiny to me, especially for a free product....

(Okay, it's a bit short, but you can't have everything.)

 

[Darrin Drader]

Even if they had sent in the license agreement, they're supposed to wait 14 days before they release a product to give WOTC time to approve. GSL has only been available for a few...

Free RPG Day is two days away. Do you think Goodman Games is going to scrap their plans for their free 4th edition product? Actually, that product is one of the main reasons I'm looking forward to free RPG day.

http://www.goodman-games.com/FRPGDay08preview.html

 

[I'm A Banana]

I'm with hong. What's wrong with it?

 

[Klaus]

Even if they had sent in the license agreement, they're supposed to wait 14 days before they release a product to give WOTC time to approve. GSL has only been available for a few...

...hours.

 

[Jack99]

Why do you care? As long as it's a royalty free license, anyone and everyone is welcome to use it. In that respect it's just like the OGL. If you thought that the GSL was going to keep the products with lower production value out of the chain, think again. In fact, with the major publishers balking at the GSL, this is likely exactly the kind of quality you can expect from most of the 3rd party 4th edition products. Coupled with all the restrictions and clauses built into the GSL, I find this.... fitting.

You have just rolled a natural *1* on your reality check.

 

[Darrin Drader]

I'm with hong. What's wrong with it?

There's no expensive color artwork on the cover, there's no interior illustrations, and it's not by WotC. It's obviously flawed!

 

[sjmiller]

I'm with hong. What's wrong with it?

You know, I have to agree with these guys. I do not see anything wrong with it. Well, other than the fact it is using an edition I don't particularly like, but that's easily remedied. It's a fine, short, encounter.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

This is precisely stuff like this I do not want to see with the DND logo on..

Why's that?

This is PRECISELY the sort of thing that complies with the GSL (apart from being a few days early haha). You're going to see TONNES of this, and a lot less of the "high-quality" stuff you might want to see, because all the high-quality producers are scared of the GSL, or at least re-thinking stuff.

 

[Cadfan]

It looks ok to me, given that its a free product designed to create interest for a 3rd party publisher I've never heard of before in my life. Its nothing I couldn't think up on my own, but the premade map and the counters are really convenient. I'd probably even use the monster status tracking page, simply because it's already there and requires no additional effort to use

The one thing I don't like about the GSL (though it will be unlikely to affect me) is the restriction on including stat blocks in a published adventure. Stat blocks are really really useful there. So useful that I suspect that many published adventures will just make customized stat blocks for their monsters, so as to retain usability. Like this guy, with his elven skeletons and his carrion beetles, and his suggestion that you sub them out for MM creatures if you feel like it. That's a really good workaround. Kudos to Ivory Goat Press.

 

[jmucchiello]

You have just rolled a natural *1* on your reality check.

Huh? Darrin's comment is spot on. Far more inexperienced pubs are going to jump in feet first than the experienced ones.

And you didn't answer the burning question: why is this precisely not the kind of product you don't want to see with the D&D logo on it?