Publishers Opinion Of PCGen

[PatrickLawinger]

Does anyone else get off on the irony of a publisher of written material has such a poor grasp of simple apostrophe rules?

I do hope you hire an outside editor for your "professional" products.

Does anyone get off on the irony of someone posting about someone they know nothing about?

Clark works his ass off. The guy receives as many as 150 emails a day, works a full-time job, and then works into the wee hours on Necromancer Games. Then he does his best to provide his opinions on OGL/d20STL to people that ask, only to get flamed. Clark is a lawyer, he has been in on the OGF/OGL/d20 bit since the beginning and knows what he is talking about.

I suppose the real question is, why does Clark bother trying to help people with the limited time he has?

Your post is nothing more than an uncalled for flame of the type that several moderators have specifically told people to avoid.

Clearly it is time for this thread to shut down.

Patrick

 

[merton_monk]

This concerns me. It seems to be contradictory. If you are talking about OGC, publishers do not have to expectation that you will pull it on their request. If you are talking about PI or other copywritten material that is not OGC, why are you coding it in the first place without permission. As we all know, once the genie is out of the bottle, it is not possible to put it back in. In a volunteer organization it is nigh impossible to to be sure that such files won't get spread across the internet, and no real way to hold anyone single person accountable once they are. Wouldn't it be best to not create the data files until after getting permission? As a show of good faith to publishers that you are as careful with their PI and non-OGC material as they would like you to be?

True, the publishers can't ask us to pull their OGC, but we will if they ask us to.

For at least the last year we've only included material we had permission for - so it's been standard practice that we ask for permission before even beginning work on converting books. The one exception to this is Wotc, but I've already detailed my efforts (and others attempted contacts as well). As I also previously mentioned, we believed we were on solid ground policy-wise, and that going about asking for permission for people was courteous and the right thing to do, even though it wasn't necessary because we weren't under the OGL or D20 terms. I wouldn't want to include anything a publisher didn't want us to include! We do have a large volunteer organization, but it's become much more formalized lately and we've tightened up who has access to add material to our releases.

 

[Morrus]

Say goodnight, everyone.