NEWS: OGL and SRD dates/info announced

[Kid Charlemagne]

Goodman Games for sure. Dungeon Crawl Classics is a killer brand.

Of course! I completely forgot them. I think my purchasing of OGL/d20 product had tailed off by the time they really took off, so I don't think of them in the top tier, although they clearly are.

 

[AllisterH]

Here's what I find weird.

WOTC says that companies can form partnerships and pay a single fee. What's preventing 5-10 of the smaller companies from forming a partnership and paying the single fee?

 

[Rechan]

WOTC says that companies can form partnerships and pay a single fee. What's preventing 5-10 of the smaller companies from forming a partnership and paying the single fee?

Nothing, I assume. But that's worth emailing them about.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Let me go on record now by saying, I would be happy to shell out $100+ to help support a third party publisher in acquiring the license. The only thing I would ask for in return would be access to the info released (so that I could begin developing and writing early), and the willingness to at least share a passing "glance" at anything I developed. To be clear: NO EXPECTATION OF BEING REQUIRED TO PUBLISH ANY OF MY STUFF.

I'm guessing WoTC would be looking askance at this sort of method of getting around the barrier... Perhaps I'm wrong.

EDIT: Looks like I may be wrong!

 

[EricNoah]

Let's round up 5000 ENW members and have them chip in $1 apiece.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Here's what I find weird.

WOTC says that companies can form partnerships and pay a single fee. What's preventing 5-10 of the smaller companies from forming a partnership and paying the single fee?

On the other hand, if this is the case, maybe I am wrong!

 

[frankthedm]

Honestly speaking, $5000 is not really a lot of money. i mean seriously, any company that has more than 1 employee on its payroll should be able to afford that!

That is a lot of money once it gets passed onto the consumer at the FLGS. That 5k more in profit needed by the company becomes 10k once the product is moved to the distributor and 15K once the FLGS has to price it for the consumer.

 

[mhensley]

Let's round up 5000 ENW members and have them chip in $1 apiece.

Hell, put me down for five and I'll get copies for everyone in my group.

 

[ashockney]

Let's round up 5000 ENW members and have them chip in $1 apiece.

HELLZZZ YEAH!!! I'm in for that too!

 

[EricNoah]

It also sounds like the days of us being able to just find a fully-fleshed SRD online might be a thing of the past. If their SRD is more 'guidelines' than the actual rules, that's pretty different than what we've gotten used to in the 3.X era.