Have you been to Necromancer Games site today?

[Holy Bovine]

OOOoooooo!

AHHHHHHHH!

THAT is why I love Necromancer Games!

That's the coolest thing I've seen this year! Congrats to Erica & Scott - I can't wait for this baby!!!!

 

[DAldredge]

How is this possible?

*EDIT*
I may be mistaken about this, did the CC take submissions from users?
*EDIT*

How is it possible to publish this? Where copyright assignments signed by every one who submited monsters to the CC? I know that the FSF (Free Software Foundation) takes in code they require a signed copyright assignment statement before the use the code. It hope I am wrong, but it looks like a few people took the work of others and plan to make some money with it. If I am wrong, I appoligize in advance.

 

[Moon_Goddess]

Re: How is this possible?

How is it possible to publish this? Where copyright assignments signed by every one who submited monsters to the CC? I know that the FSF (Free Software Foundation) takes in code they require a signed copyright assignment statement before the use the code. It hope I am wrong, but it looks like a few people took the work of others and plan to make some money with it. If I am wrong, I appoligize in advance.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I never got the impression that CC took submision, just hundreds of hours of Scotts hard work....

 

[Sulimo]

Another monster manual!? How many monster manuals can people buy?

 

[DAldredge]

Re: Re: How is this possible?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I never got the impression that CC took submision, just hundreds of hours of Scotts hard work....

Then I was mistaken. Buy what about the WoTC trademarks on some of the names?

You have to admit that removing the pdf after it was linked from the frontpage on EnWorld/D20Reviews.Com is a little strange.

 

[Alaric_Prympax]

I'd be willing to bet large sums of money on the fact that Clark Peterson knows exactly what he's doing.

I agree with you Morrus. Clark Peterson is a lawyer afterall and I bet he looked into this before Necromancer Games made any kind of announcement to make sure this was entirely legal.

IMO Necromancer Games is one of the BEST d20 publishers out there and they are one of my favorite d20 companies. You guys are GREAT!!!! Keep up the fantastic work. I will be getting this one, count on it!

 

[A2Z]

Another monster manual!? How many monster manuals can people buy?

About 67 give or take.

 

[Psion]

I'd be willing to bet large sums of money on the fact that Clark Peterson knows exactly what he's doing.

Uh-huh. But consider this. Do you have prisoners of the maze? There is a creature in there that strongly resembles a water wierd. But do they call it a water wierd? No, it's a drench.

In short, we could see lots of rubbing off of serial numbers.

 

[Holy Bovine]

About 67 give or take.

Only 67??!!!

That seems unbearably low in my estimation

I'd go for at least 100 or more.

I mean can you ever have enough monsters? Is it even a possiblity?

I thought not

 

[ColonelHardisson]

I'm glad to see that Scott and Erica are getting some much-deserved recognition. The conversions are straight from the monster books of 1e and 2e, and some adventures.

Now consider this, if you see a problem: Kenzer got the rights to 1e and 2e, and their Hacklopedias are FILLED with 1e and 2e monsters, lifted almost directly from the old 1e and 2e books, with few changes for the most part; HM is a spiffed-up 1e/2e, and the changes that needed to be made are much, much less than the work Scott and Co. did in converting monsters to 3e stats.

So the issue of someone making money off the sweat of others is unfounded. I'm sure Necromancer bought the rights just as Kenzer did.