GSL, Published Worlds and your game

[Filcher]

So back on topic ...

Not sure if this has been brought up yet or not. I thought of it Friday night but had to travel out of town.

With WoTC's 'publish a new PHB every year' plan and, to my understanding, 3rd partys having to not exclude core things from their works... does this mean companies that create campaign worlds will have to update them every year to bring them in line with WoTC's new books?

The prevailing sentiment seems to be that 3pp can omit new core material. I don't explicitly tell you that my "City Wurld" doesn't have rangers, I just don't mention anything about them in the setting book I release.

Will DM's feel more pressure to say 'yes' to a player that wants to bring in a new race/class since this is one of the ideas in 4.0 ("Say yes!") and they are now coming out in 'core' books vs splat books?

I hope not. GMs should always have the cojones to say, "No!" to anything that doesn't suit the world vision.

 

[Filcher]

I am not excluding the possibility though that some publishers omit this difference and do exclude things. If Wotc will omit this or exclude the publishers from the license, I do not know.

Now you're just teasing me.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Things exist by definition. So logically you can't exclude them.

Not in any campaign I've ever been in.

 

[xechnao]

Not in any campaign I've ever been in.

Nice. Care to share the story?