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<blockquote data-quote="nikolai" data-source="post: 1489192" data-attributes="member: 10130">I really think Andy has really done everyone a disservice. Loads of the stuff that really helps my game is provided on the web by fans who do it for free and entirely out of the kindness of their hearts. I'm very grateful for this. The UA SRD would be a fantastic resourse, WotC has explicitly given everyone permission to do this, and a group of people got together to make it happen.At this point Andy, speaking entirely in a personal capacity, said that they were petty, going against the spirit of open gaming, abusing the generosity of others, and doing something that wasn't appreciated. Others have suggested, in the last couple of pages, that what he said was clueless. But, in spite of this, this appears to have killed the project. Some of those involved have - totally unjustifiably - posted to say they're ashamed and feel like jerks, when they're not.Darkness; I agree with what you say. It is cool for WotC to make things OGC. (Though they had to make some of it OGC, as the book used OGC). I'm all for politeness. It would be cool to send WotC an email, saying what you're doing, and thanking them, even though (or especially since), WotC have said that chunks of UA are Open Game Content and people are free to distribute it. But - as far as I can see - none of that was Andy's point. Andy's point was it is a bad thing for people to make a UA SRD, he's wrong, but even so has still managed to sabotage the project, and make a bunch of people who were trying to do a really neat thing for others feel unreasonably bad about themselves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nikolai, post: 1489192, member: 10130"] I really think Andy has really done everyone a disservice. Loads of the stuff that really helps my game is provided on the web by fans who do it for free and entirely out of the kindness of their hearts. I'm very grateful for this. The UA SRD would be a fantastic resourse, WotC has explicitly given everyone permission to do this, and a group of people got together to make it happen. At this point Andy, speaking entirely in a personal capacity, said that they were petty, going against the spirit of open gaming, abusing the generosity of others, and doing something that wasn't appreciated. Others have suggested, in the last couple of pages, that what he said was clueless. But, in spite of this, this appears to have killed the project. Some of those involved have - totally unjustifiably - posted to say they're ashamed and feel like jerks, when they're not. [b]Darkness[/b]; I agree with what you say. It is cool for WotC to make things OGC. (Though they had to make some of it OGC, as the book used OGC). I'm all for politeness. It would be cool to send WotC an email, saying what you're doing, and thanking them, even though (or especially since), WotC have said that chunks of UA are Open Game Content and people are free to distribute it. But - as far as I can see - none of that was Andy's point. Andy's point was it is a bad thing for people to make a UA SRD, he's wrong, but even so has still managed to sabotage the project, and make a bunch of people who were trying to do a really neat thing for others feel unreasonably bad about themselves. [/QUOTE]

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