GSL - Will we see new 4e based games?
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One third party outfit, called DiasExMachina, is putting out a 4e cyberpunk-esque game later this year called Neurospasta.
DiasExMachina to release NeuroSpasta - GSL Cyberpunk - Wizards Community
DiasExMachina to release NeuroSpasta - GSL Cyberpunk - Wizards Community
CapnZapp
Legend
One team started out on designing a 4E-like game using the OGL. Theoretically, this would enable third-party publisher to create OGL publications that customers could use more-or-less directly in their 4E games; including new worlds, new rules subsystems etc.
Link: http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpg-le...t-4e-gaming-system-license-3.html#post4376636 (though nothing has been heard from them for a while)
Link: http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpg-le...t-4e-gaming-system-license-3.html#post4376636 (though nothing has been heard from them for a while)
Nightchilde-2
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I read that as "Neuropasta" at first.
Reality Deviant Publications is working on our first GSL supplement, Scarrport, City of Secrets, the first in our "Campaign Cutout" line of 4e products:
Here's a bit of information:
Introduction
Campaign Cutouts introduce new material for players and game masters to use in their 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons™ games. In each Campaign Cutout, you will find detailed information about the location and its inhabitants, new races, paragon paths, new monsters, feats, magic items, region-specific hazards and much more!
The first Campaign Cutout introduces you to the infamous city of Scarrport, a seedy trade port on the banks of the mighty Torberyn River where it converges with the Wellspring River. Scarrport is widely known as the gateway to the Hellfury Peaks — a mysterious region where evil festers in every crag, it’s influence spreading across the region like a raging firestorm. Unholy hell spawn roam the rugged mountain range, preying on unwary travelers and adventurers who seek to make their fortunes exploring the countless ruins dotting the land.
Dangerous cults who worship dark gods riddle Scarrport’s four boroughs, using the city as a base of operations from which they spread their influence to other kingdoms. No place for the naïve, the thieves and grifters of Scarrport lurk around every corner of this bustling city, preying on newcomers like a school of night fang eels on deep water trout. The unwary are soon parted with their money and possessions in this dangerous city or on the myriad river boats that stop in Scarrport to offload goods and pick up passengers. Yet, despite its unsavory reputation, Scarrport is a magnet for heroes in search of adventure. From the brothels, drug houses and gambling dens of the Fens to the boats traveling the Torberyn and Wellspring Rivers, or beyond the city in the demon-infested Hellfury Peaks and the tangled Dark Wood, the possibilities for adventure are boundless.
Scarrport in your world
Like all gamers, you are either using a published game setting, or have created your own amazing “home brew” worlds to play in. So why bother with a new setting? That was the fundamental question I grappled with when designing the concept for Campaign Cutouts. Even the most intricate worlds have a few blank spaces on the map. Campaign Cutouts help you fill in those spaces, providing you with interesting locations for you to plug right into your game with little or no work on your part.
Optimally, you can use each Campaign Cutout “right out of the box” for one-shot games or even a mini-campaign. Campaign Cutouts are designed to be setting neutral, providing you with just enough information about the region and its inhabitants to make the campaign cutout playable, but not so much that you feel like you would have to shoe horn the material to fit with your world. Since each element of this Campaign Cutout is presented in modular format, you can use any part of this product as a stand alone element, adding or dropping each individual component as you see fit.
THE CITY OF SCARRPORT
Scarrport works in any region where two rivers merge into one. This exciting river city can be plugged into such a region with very little work at all on your part. Indeed, you just might find that the element of river traffic provides and interesting dynamic for your games. Imagine a bustling city with all the intrigue and danger of a seaport, but set on a mighty, winding river flowing throughout the lands. Each day brings new people, whether they are adventurers, nobles, merchants or simple farmers from surrounding villages bringing their crops to market.
Scarrport is the perfect setting for fantasy adventures in the vein of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Adventure waits just around the next bend in the river. Match blades with brigands who prey on river traffic. Outwit grifters who frequent luxury river boats, seeking to separate people from their coin in games of chance or confidence schemes, or foil the plans of insidious cults. Of course, the four boroughs are a hotbed of intrigue for any adventurers brave enough to immerse themselves in the shady politics of the many nobles and emissaries who come to Scarrport from far off kingdoms, representing the interests of kings and queens.
The book is looking good so far, but there's more work to be done. Expect to see this puppy in PDF form in March.
Here's a bit of information:
Introduction
Campaign Cutouts introduce new material for players and game masters to use in their 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons™ games. In each Campaign Cutout, you will find detailed information about the location and its inhabitants, new races, paragon paths, new monsters, feats, magic items, region-specific hazards and much more!
The first Campaign Cutout introduces you to the infamous city of Scarrport, a seedy trade port on the banks of the mighty Torberyn River where it converges with the Wellspring River. Scarrport is widely known as the gateway to the Hellfury Peaks — a mysterious region where evil festers in every crag, it’s influence spreading across the region like a raging firestorm. Unholy hell spawn roam the rugged mountain range, preying on unwary travelers and adventurers who seek to make their fortunes exploring the countless ruins dotting the land.
Dangerous cults who worship dark gods riddle Scarrport’s four boroughs, using the city as a base of operations from which they spread their influence to other kingdoms. No place for the naïve, the thieves and grifters of Scarrport lurk around every corner of this bustling city, preying on newcomers like a school of night fang eels on deep water trout. The unwary are soon parted with their money and possessions in this dangerous city or on the myriad river boats that stop in Scarrport to offload goods and pick up passengers. Yet, despite its unsavory reputation, Scarrport is a magnet for heroes in search of adventure. From the brothels, drug houses and gambling dens of the Fens to the boats traveling the Torberyn and Wellspring Rivers, or beyond the city in the demon-infested Hellfury Peaks and the tangled Dark Wood, the possibilities for adventure are boundless.
Scarrport in your world
Like all gamers, you are either using a published game setting, or have created your own amazing “home brew” worlds to play in. So why bother with a new setting? That was the fundamental question I grappled with when designing the concept for Campaign Cutouts. Even the most intricate worlds have a few blank spaces on the map. Campaign Cutouts help you fill in those spaces, providing you with interesting locations for you to plug right into your game with little or no work on your part.
Optimally, you can use each Campaign Cutout “right out of the box” for one-shot games or even a mini-campaign. Campaign Cutouts are designed to be setting neutral, providing you with just enough information about the region and its inhabitants to make the campaign cutout playable, but not so much that you feel like you would have to shoe horn the material to fit with your world. Since each element of this Campaign Cutout is presented in modular format, you can use any part of this product as a stand alone element, adding or dropping each individual component as you see fit.
THE CITY OF SCARRPORT
Scarrport works in any region where two rivers merge into one. This exciting river city can be plugged into such a region with very little work at all on your part. Indeed, you just might find that the element of river traffic provides and interesting dynamic for your games. Imagine a bustling city with all the intrigue and danger of a seaport, but set on a mighty, winding river flowing throughout the lands. Each day brings new people, whether they are adventurers, nobles, merchants or simple farmers from surrounding villages bringing their crops to market.
Scarrport is the perfect setting for fantasy adventures in the vein of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Adventure waits just around the next bend in the river. Match blades with brigands who prey on river traffic. Outwit grifters who frequent luxury river boats, seeking to separate people from their coin in games of chance or confidence schemes, or foil the plans of insidious cults. Of course, the four boroughs are a hotbed of intrigue for any adventurers brave enough to immerse themselves in the shady politics of the many nobles and emissaries who come to Scarrport from far off kingdoms, representing the interests of kings and queens.
The book is looking good so far, but there's more work to be done. Expect to see this puppy in PDF form in March.
jaerdaph
#UkraineStrong
dm4hire
Explorer
Copyright laws don't protect game mechanics so anyone can make a game system similiar to D&D 4e; they just can't associate it to anything that would be trademarked by WotC. Whether WotC corrects the GSL to give a little more leeway for the making of variants or not; I won't be surprised to see someone eventually jump on it, if only done as freeware.
Actually thinking about it. WotC should just revert to the OGL and modify it so that part of the conditions for the GSL and D20 logo is that you have to place a full page add for D&D in the back of your products. Free advertisement would benefit WotC and be a small price to pay for using their license.
Actually thinking about it. WotC should just revert to the OGL and modify it so that part of the conditions for the GSL and D20 logo is that you have to place a full page add for D&D in the back of your products. Free advertisement would benefit WotC and be a small price to pay for using their license.
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