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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Hes not selling it

If it invalidates a Dolmenwood sale -- a product he has spent more than a decade of blood, sweat and tears on -- that's the issue, not whether the people invalidating the sales are making a profit off it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I always wonder why you can’t have a conversion document that only makes things clear within the scope of owning the original document, like referencing page numbers in the original.

That's typically what successful conversion documents, official and otherwise, end up doing.

 

[Fenris-77]

If it invalidates a Dolmenwood sale -- a product he has spent more than a decade of blood, sweat and tears on -- that's the issue, not whether the people invalidating the sales are making a profit off it.

Yeah, that's not the intent at all, and I can't see it doing that. Just my two cents of course. The project isn't about reproducing DW page by page, just about converting the mechanics to SD.

 

[Reynard]

In a perfect world, conversions are unnecessary because adventures are intentionally designed for the game they are supposed to be used with. I think you must inevitably and necessarily lose something in the conversion, and a well designed thing should be experienced in the system it was made for. This is doubly true in a project like Dolemwood because the creator actively rebuilt the system to serve the project.

All that said, it isn’t "wrong" to convert things. But why not play it as the creator intended?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

All that said, it isn’t "wrong" to convert things. But why not play it as the creator intended?

Speaking for myself, some of the latent BXisms are kind of a turn off for me with Dolmenwood, but ideally, that would just mean I'd get to play it, rather than run it.