GSL FAQ up

[Shroomy]

I thought we misinterpreted what someone else misinterpreted about the GSL.

 

[Maggan]

Umm... excuse me, but what is the cause for celebration?

For me, it's a cause for celebration that there will be a license that allows me and others to create D&D-compatible material, and clearly brand it as a D&D product.

Sounds cool to me.

As for the possibility/certainty that the license will be revoked some time or another, I reckon most products put out have a shelf-life measured in months, where the producer sells most of his stock. The rest sits there in perpetuity.

It's not as if there are hordes of customers clamouring to buy years-old modules and expansions. Dealing with gamers and moving product is very much an exercise in "get it while it's hot!", and less "I have an evergreen product that will sell, and sell, and sell and then they'll revoke the license and my product will be worthless."

Might be different for PDF:s, but then again, at this point in time, we're talking about having to pull a product that probably has sold tens of copies, maybe hundreds, if/when the license is revoked. I would just pull the product, edit it to conform to the OGL instead (or already have a version ready), and put that one up instead.

IMO and all that.

/M

 

[Brown Jenkin]

"It's their fault we misinterpreted what they said" is a BS argument.

Except that from the very first denials about 4e almost everything that WotC spokespeople have said has required heavy parsing to know if the obvious interpretation is in fact the correct one.

 

[Mark]

Except that from the very first denials about 4e almost everything that WotC spokespeople have said has required heavy parsing to know if the obvious interpretation is in fact the correct one.

Until the license is released, no one knows exactly what the language in it will support by way of third party publisher products.

 

[Voadam]

I think doing this would be a bad idea for them, incidentally, when they can create a new 4e product line named "Dungeon Dive Classics" and keep their old 3e catalog intact for any remaining 3e sales. Later, when sales volume trickles to a halt, they always have the right to concert the DCC line to 4e and sell it anew.

Goodman is going with 4e DCCs, even continuing with the current number scheme.

http://www.ogrecave.com/news/goodman_dcc4e_preview.shtml

I want to know if this means I soon won't be able to buy pdfs of #1-50.