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<blockquote data-quote="Doctor Futurity" data-source="post: 7668934" data-attributes="member: 10738"><p>One reason Goodman Games along with Frog God are publishing 5E products ahead of the pack is that they are both run by business-savy guys with either good legal counsel or actual legal backgrounds (Bill Webb is actually in the legal profession iirc). Frog God is even bolder than Goodman, having produced four hard covers books including Fifth Edition Foes, Book of lost Spells and two module books for 5E, and even has a pre-existing legal agreement with WotC dating back to 3E that lets him replicate Fiend Folio monsters and other certain IP, apparently in perpetuity given that they've managed to do so now for 3E, 3.5, Pathfinder and 5E. </p><p></p><p>The question of whether or not one can publish fifth-edition compatible content isn't really an issue; this has been going on since the dawn of the hobby and the only real question is that you avoid specific branding/names/IP that could confuse your product with something from WotC.....or so I gather. Another legal-savvy publisher in the business is the hackmaster guys at Kenzer & Co. and they have said much about this before (someone linked to it earlier, I believe). What is at issue is the fact that if you can publish content under a proper OGL you gain some special benefits that might include being able to state your product is compatible with D&D or D20 games, and also allow you to use specific compatible language and formatting that matches the D&D style in a manner familiar to fans. That is a HUGE benefit to selling a third party product, and avoid the hassle for those (like myself) who want to publish 3PP content but aren't as legally savvy and prefer not to step on WotC's toes by accident. Also, once you're producing an OGL work, at least as it works for the 1.0a OGL from 3rd edition, you gain access to an immense wealth of additional content that is described as open content from all other publishers and works under that umbrella....it's a key reason the OGL persists so strongly today. So for a lot of us, a 5E OGL feels extremely important, as it will provide an edge to selling my product as a D&D-compatible book that it would not otherwise have as yet another "fifth edition fantasy" book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doctor Futurity, post: 7668934, member: 10738"] One reason Goodman Games along with Frog God are publishing 5E products ahead of the pack is that they are both run by business-savy guys with either good legal counsel or actual legal backgrounds (Bill Webb is actually in the legal profession iirc). Frog God is even bolder than Goodman, having produced four hard covers books including Fifth Edition Foes, Book of lost Spells and two module books for 5E, and even has a pre-existing legal agreement with WotC dating back to 3E that lets him replicate Fiend Folio monsters and other certain IP, apparently in perpetuity given that they've managed to do so now for 3E, 3.5, Pathfinder and 5E. The question of whether or not one can publish fifth-edition compatible content isn't really an issue; this has been going on since the dawn of the hobby and the only real question is that you avoid specific branding/names/IP that could confuse your product with something from WotC.....or so I gather. Another legal-savvy publisher in the business is the hackmaster guys at Kenzer & Co. and they have said much about this before (someone linked to it earlier, I believe). What is at issue is the fact that if you can publish content under a proper OGL you gain some special benefits that might include being able to state your product is compatible with D&D or D20 games, and also allow you to use specific compatible language and formatting that matches the D&D style in a manner familiar to fans. That is a HUGE benefit to selling a third party product, and avoid the hassle for those (like myself) who want to publish 3PP content but aren't as legally savvy and prefer not to step on WotC's toes by accident. Also, once you're producing an OGL work, at least as it works for the 1.0a OGL from 3rd edition, you gain access to an immense wealth of additional content that is described as open content from all other publishers and works under that umbrella....it's a key reason the OGL persists so strongly today. So for a lot of us, a 5E OGL feels extremely important, as it will provide an edge to selling my product as a D&D-compatible book that it would not otherwise have as yet another "fifth edition fantasy" book. [/QUOTE]
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