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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 899188" data-attributes="member: 7394">Such a setting exists... sort of.Although I am no longer a member of Dark Portal Games, creating an open setting was one of the goals of the company. In fact, this idea was introduced to a group of publishers, and at the time another publisher was interested in making one of their upcoming adventures comaptible with Arekoz. You'll also notice that like a few other settings, Buffside and Freeport are on the map. This was done with the knowledge and approval from both Thunderhead Games (now Mystic Eye) and Green Ronin.The reason that most publishers aren't going to open up their worlds is for the reasons stated above, and also because settings don't sell as well as source material or monsters, though they generally do slightly better than adventures. Because of this, if a publisher wants to create a brand, they want all the dollars that are being spent on that brand to go to them. It makes sense since the only way to keep producing RPG material is to remain a viable business.As for DPG, go to <a href="http://www.darkportalgames.biz" target="_blank">www.darkportalgames.biz</a> and click on the OWL link (open world license). No, there isn't a license there at the moment, but creating a license to open up the world was one of the things that we were working on when I parted company with them. As for whether or not Tony and the gang are still pursuing this is something that they would have to answer.</blockquote>

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