free 4E?

[FormerlyDickensC]

anyone interested in posting or pm'ing the work they have so far?? I hope the initial work is laid and I would want to move into a more collaborative stage.

 

[Ruis]

Thats a tough situation, considering we both do not have pm privileges. click on my name and shoot me an email.

 

[Angellis_ater]

I would suggest setting somethin up at www.pbwiki.com for example (or another wiki service) from which we can work, discuss and focus our attention.

 

[Angellis_ater]

Oh, it should also be noted that it seems that Wizard is a little confused what their trade dress
is made up of: http://rob-donoghue.livejournal.com/303420.html

Might be important for designing a Free4E

 

[FormerlyDickensC]

Thats a tough situation, considering we both do not have pm privileges. click on my name and shoot me an email.

I didnt even realize you had to pay to pm, thats bothersome.

 

[cwyers]

What about Iron Heroes?

IIRC, there's quite a bit of OGC in there, and it's possible that some of it was "ported" into 4E by Mearls.

 

[CapnZapp]

So, anyone know of a project to recreate 4E without copyright? (Preferably using the OGL)

If done quickly enough, such a project could actually take flight.

To answer my own question:

http://4esque.pbwiki.com/

Its invite only. when you go to it, just request writer access and try to use your enworld name so i know who it is. I work from home, so i'm online alot. I will keep gmail open.

However, you can't make anonymous edits there. Heck, you can't even follow the progress anonymously! Compared to Wikipedia, I guess I feel that is somewhat strange... but good luck to Ruis and team anyway.


Now, that is one answer... are there any other efforts?

 

[FormerlyDickensC]

Now, that is one answer... are there any other efforts?

This is a long-winded reply that prob doesn't even need to be, but...

I hope that if there are actually other efforts going on, that they merge themselves with the current effort at http://4esque.pbwiki.com/

It should only be a matter of copy & paste on the wiki and since the end goal is to have some type of standardized OGL replacement for 4E, having multiple projects going might be counter productive. If/when conflicts occur, then perhaps there could be some kind of fork, but I don't think there is any need for that since this replacement will be a minimal set of rules mechanics and not much more.

Also, lets get the system completed and then can worry if there are any nuances that need changing.

 

[Angellis_ater]

Agreed, it is better to focus the effort at this point since we are all doing the same thing. AND, anonymous editing might work for Wikipedia where there are thousands of editors - a small Wiki like ours would get wrecked by a spambot should it make its way there. So registration is an unfortunate necessity at this stage.