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<blockquote data-quote="Tav_Behemoth" data-source="post: 1585013" data-attributes="member: 18017"><p>The older I get, the more I respect Gary and his remarkable achievements. Few people have had such a revolutionary impact on my life and the world we all live in. But one nice thing about getting older is learning that you can love your elders and still disagree with them...</p><p></p><p>As we were fooling around with cover design ideas for <a href="http://www.behemoth3.com" target="_blank">Masters and Minions</a>, one of the things I considered was an homage to the 1980 <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1477&" target="_blank">World of Greyhawk</a> folio, both because it's a thing of beauty and because it's a 32-page book like our Horde Books--I'm not yet ambitious enough to even think of creating a jam-packed tome like the '79 DMG!</p><p></p><p>As I sketched out my tribute version of its cover, it gave me an incredible feeling of liberation to say "copyleft" everywhere the original says "copyright", and "all rights released" everywhere it says "all rights reserved". (There's a nice variant of this on a Guided by Voices album: "All wrongs reversed.") Now, that was published then, and we're dealing with an entirely different landscape now. We're not doing that version of the cover, nor is Behemoth3 actually giving up every moral right to our creation. But it was nice to feel that spirit of freedom for a moment!</p><p></p><p>I think that the Open Gaming License's contribution of the D&D ruleset to the community will ultimately be seen as having a transformative impact on gaming that's almost as great as the creation of the original roleplaying game. We've got enough to thank Gary for already; if he doesn't want to wave flags for the current revolution, I reckon he's earned that right!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tav_Behemoth, post: 1585013, member: 18017"] The older I get, the more I respect Gary and his remarkable achievements. Few people have had such a revolutionary impact on my life and the world we all live in. But one nice thing about getting older is learning that you can love your elders and still disagree with them... As we were fooling around with cover design ideas for [URL=http://www.behemoth3.com]Masters and Minions[/URL], one of the things I considered was an homage to the 1980 [URL=http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1477&]World of Greyhawk[/URL] folio, both because it's a thing of beauty and because it's a 32-page book like our Horde Books--I'm not yet ambitious enough to even think of creating a jam-packed tome like the '79 DMG! As I sketched out my tribute version of its cover, it gave me an incredible feeling of liberation to say "copyleft" everywhere the original says "copyright", and "all rights released" everywhere it says "all rights reserved". (There's a nice variant of this on a Guided by Voices album: "All wrongs reversed.") Now, that was published then, and we're dealing with an entirely different landscape now. We're not doing that version of the cover, nor is Behemoth3 actually giving up every moral right to our creation. But it was nice to feel that spirit of freedom for a moment! I think that the Open Gaming License's contribution of the D&D ruleset to the community will ultimately be seen as having a transformative impact on gaming that's almost as great as the creation of the original roleplaying game. We've got enough to thank Gary for already; if he doesn't want to wave flags for the current revolution, I reckon he's earned that right! [/QUOTE]
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