Grand OGL Wiki (Updates)

[Man-thing]

Um, do any of the Mongoose "classic play" books happen to be in the hopper?

What are you looking for, I expect I can get it. I have a couple people that have recently just finished up some books.

Feel free to email me you book request: gedakm@gmail.com

As I don't get to the boards as often as I like.

- Mark

Quint Dwarf - Done
Quint Drow - Done
Multiclass Tables for Quint Bard II, Quint Bbn II - Done

I'll be working on the Cities of Fantasy tonight I think (after Quantum of Solace).

 

[Man-thing]

November 16th Update

I received another email from John on Friday. He sent over the last of the material from the Quintessential Dwarf. So now if you need a dwarven character concepts, prestige classes, ale, feats, runecannons, devil dwarf subrace, runes, gods, mines, underdeep beasts and holds.

The Quintessential Drow (a mature title) added material on equipment, magic items, spells, fleshcrafting modifications, gravebinding, gods, spiders, cities and political schemes (Game of Bones).

So that two more races books written by Sam Witt up on the wiki now. (Anyone know how to reach him, I'd like to get an author profile).

Yair got to me on Friday as well finishing up the Quintessential Druid (he’s moving on to Quint Druid II now). If you need druid character concepts, prestige classes, hunting, feats, equipment, potion trees, planes of existence, spells, wildshape customization or circles.

Completed books so far include many Quintessentials (Aristocrat, Barbarian, Barbarian II, Bard, Bard II, Chaos Mage, Cleric, Drow, Druid, Dwarf and Elf) (Mongoose), Spells and Magic (Dragonwing), Potent Portals (Creative Mountain Games), The Whispering Woodwind (Creative Mountain Games), Blasphemous Terrors (Reality Deviants), Critical Feats (Reality Deviants).

Things we are working on:
(Joel) Monster Encyclopaedia [which seems to be popular with our site traffic], (Yair) Quint Druid II, (Mike) Quint Clr II, (Mark) Cities of Fantasy Series, updates to the site.

We are always looking for new author profiles, volunteers, product donations, products for review, or homebrew creations. If you want to help in any of these ways, please contact me gedakm@gmail.com and we’ll set things up.

 

[Raven Crowking]

We are always looking for new author profiles, volunteers, product donations, products for review, or homebrew creations. If you want to help in any of these ways, please contact me gedakm@gmail.com and we’ll set things up.

Some of the material I produced for Dragon Roots #1 (Welcome to www.dragonroots.com! Search Results Powered by OXiDE search ....radical results (TM)) is OGC, and I would be more than happy to see it on the wiki.

I imagine that Rocco (the editior in chief) should be contacted through that site before finalizing, though.

RC

 

[Man-thing]

Do you want to contact the editor and make sure.
I would be pleased to add the content to the Grand OGL Wiki.

 

[DM-Rocco]

Some of the material I produced for Dragon Roots #1 (Welcome to www.dragonroots.com! Search Results Powered by OXiDE search ....radical results (TM)) is OGC, and I would be more than happy to see it on the wiki.

I imagine that Rocco (the editior in chief) should be contacted through that site before finalizing, though.

RC

I look at the OGC as a double edge sword regarding the magazine Dragon Roots. I did state in the magazine that the content in the magazine, with the exception of some trademarked or product identity, is Open Content. I view this as a personal use and not for open display in other publications otherwise, what is the point of selling a magazine if you can get it for free elsewhere.

That being said, I do also state that the material submitted by the authors is the property of the author and they can do what they want with it in the future so long as it is clearly stated that Dragon Roots has rights to the material as well and has the right to continue its use in the future.

If you want to use material from Dragon Roots Magazine I would prefer that you honor our new contract release that we are having our contributors sign. In it we ask that all material for use in a forum, other than for personal use, that is OGC or GSL or OGL, is not used for republication for a period of 1 year. After 1 year we would ask that only portions of the magazine, for instance an article, be used in a manner in which you are presenting and not the whole magazine. I think this balances the dilemma so the author can freely post his work on forums like this but gives us time to sell the magazine without fear of losing profits. We haven’t worked out all the details yet, for instance, we don’t have a problem with say Raven Crowking selling his work in issue #1 to another magazine or printing it in his own pdf before a year is up. Obviously though, if he made his own pdf with his article from Dragon Roots Magazine and posted it here, we wouldn’t be exactly happy as it would again defeat the idea of having it in the magazine. So this idea does need to be fleshed out a bit and we are working on it. I am not a lawyer, so there might be an easier way to go about saying it, but I haven’t figured it out yet.

Long story short though, the basic idea is that we would prefer to have a year without it being offered for free. Anything less and we feel that it prohibits sales and defeats the purpose of selling a magazine.

Any material used from Dragon Roots must contain the title and author of the articles name along with the issue number and year of print, company name, my name and our website, in at least a 10 point legible font to the English speaking public.

Example: Campaign Considerations by Daniel Bishop Dragon Roots Magazine Issue Two Copyright ©2008, Old School Publishing, LLC, Author C.E.Rocco, DRAGON ROOTS.

On a side note, even though issue #0 isn’t a year old I might be swayed into allowing the whole magazine for download for free here. It has been something I have been kicking around for a while anyway so people can check out the magazine. I am going to reformat my computer in the coming months and redo our website and when that happens I plan on offering Issue #0 as a free download. If you want, when that happens, you can post it on your forum if you want to.

I would be happy to answer any questions or to discuss how material is handled. Either write back here or send me a e-mail at dragonroots@comcast.net.

 

[Man-thing]

Hey Rocco,

No problem, we always work with publishers. Perhaps we can do something with you in the future.

 

[Raven Crowking]

Hey Rocco,

No problem, we always work with publishers. Perhaps we can do something with you in the future.

It was my thought that, by including some material, Rocco might gain some benefit for viewers who then want the rest.

 

[Fifth Element]

I look at the OGC as a double edge sword regarding the magazine Dragon Roots. I did state in the magazine that the content in the magazine, with the exception of some trademarked or product identity, is Open Content. I view this as a personal use and not for open display in other publications otherwise, what is the point of selling a magazine if you can get it for free elsewhere.

It's fine to request it not be used. Just remember that no one has an obligation to honour your request. If you use the OGL, you have to realize that OGC is open to anyone else who uses the OGL.

The only way to protect content from not being disseminated is to not declare it OGC.

 

[Raven Crowking]

It's fine to request it not be used. Just remember that no one has an obligation to honour your request. If you use the OGL, you have to realize that OGC is open to anyone else who uses the OGL.

The only way to protect content from not being disseminated is to not declare it OGC.

That's absolutely true. IMHO, OGC is a major bonus for any product, because it increases the value of that product. It also gives people who buy something else the chance to check the license at the back for products they might wish to buy.

The OGL-Wiki, though, is only using material that the publisher/author OKs.


RC

 

[Fifth Element]

The OGL-Wiki, though, is only using material that the publisher/author OKs.

I see. If that's the OGL-Wiki's policy, then I understand.

If they want to use any of my OGC, they can feel free. Not that it'd be worth the time to input it...