Goodman Games Releasing 4e Adventures Prior to October 1st

[Shroomy]

Not sure how they are doing it, but Goodman Games is releasing four 4e adventures in early September. You can read about it here. And before anyone says this is a typo, Joseph Goodman confirmed it on their forum:

For those of you who are wondering about today's news post: yes, those products really will be available before October 1. I generally don't discuss business in public forums but because there will be questions, I am posting here to confirm yes, it is true, as is the blurb in the back of yesterday's Free RPG Day release. 'Nuff said... now enjoy reading about Punjar with the freebies from yesterday.

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Joseph Goodman
Goodman Games
www.goodman-games.com

 

[xechnao]

Not sure how they are doing it, but Goodman Games is releasing four 4e adventures in early September. You can read about it here. And before anyone says this is a typo, Joseph Goodman confirmed it on their forum:

Lol, will the books have the D&D logo on them?

 

[Jadeite]

Lol, will the books have the D&D logo on them?

Their system is listed as "4E". So they might be under a special license or they might use no license at all (which should become rather interesting).

 

[Moon-Lancer]

they probably think if the gsl is only going to let you refer to the names of creatures and concepts, and using the gsl is more restrictive and takes away more rights and options then if its not used at all. They probably think that the rights given to make compatible products is flexible enough to publish 4e adventures.

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I could be wrong though. I am interested in finding out what is going on here. Other tried and true options other then the GSL are a good thing in my opinion.

 

[DaveMage]

Not sure how they are doing it, but Goodman Games is releasing four 4e adventures in early September. You can read about it here. And before anyone says this is a typo, Joseph Goodman confirmed it on their forum:

Fascinating.

And they are still DCCs...

 

[Alikar]

Indeed. They might be testing the waters here. It will be interesting to see how this works out. We might be seeing a lot of "4E" material without reference to DnD.

 

[Treebore]

J. Goodman is smart enough not to be doing anything stupid. I am actually interested in the Points of Light and PC Pearls products, myself, Those are system neutral.

Plus I will be buying one of the modules. I love Fat Dragon Games stuff, so I have to get those tiles.

 

[Zaukrie]

Cool stuff. One with a double sided map of islands, one with a double sided map for minis/encounters, and one with pre-printed 3D terrain from fat dragon games! wow!

 

[Filcher]

Not sure how they are doing it, but Goodman Games is releasing four 4e adventures in early September.

Technically we'll be able to get them in August (at Gen Con) if I'm reading the coming soon page correctly:

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

 

[cangrejoide]

He just negotiated a special license. GSL is if you want to do 4E D&D stuff for free, you can always negotiate a special license paying up royalties ( like you normally have to do for every other product in the market) for use of the IP/System.

Any company can do this. Actually I think that when most serious companies finally decide to jump into 4E , they will negotiate for a special license. So we may actually see good high quality 3PP products for 4E after all.