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<blockquote data-quote="Sniperfox47" data-source="post: 6295598" data-attributes="member: 6776026"><p>I have a couple races and a bunch of traditions that I'm currently polishing off but they won't be put in the database until the play tests have finished. This is for two reasons:</p><p></p><p>1) It's pointless to publish third party content for an unfinished game (assuming that game's development wasn't terminated), particularly a playtest because it creates a chain reaction.</p><p></p><p>When you publish content, players find that content interesting > When they find it interesting, they want to play it > When they want to play it, they hound their DM until he works it around so they can play it > When they do play it, they're not playing the first party content > When they don't play the first party content, they don't test it > When they don't test it, it defeats the whole point of running a playtest in the first place.</p><p></p><p>2) The games still quite early into development, and it's not only likely that there will be at least small tweaks to the way races work, it's probable. If this happens and creators don't update their creations in the database then it may cause issues for players and DMs in the future.</p><p></p><p>(P.S. @<em><strong><u><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=1" target="_blank">Morrus</a></u></strong></em> : I know it's not high on the priority list, but if you do have a race/career/tradition database for the full version I'd like to suggest you leave an entry for the license under which the race/career/tradition is published. Some third party publishers may like to include samples from their products for example and may wish to stipulate the content's license. Additionally, I'd personally like to make my submission's license as visible as possible to the user so they know under what conditions they may make derivatives of my content, especially if I'm publishing derivative content to your site with permission of the original author.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sniperfox47, post: 6295598, member: 6776026"] I have a couple races and a bunch of traditions that I'm currently polishing off but they won't be put in the database until the play tests have finished. This is for two reasons: 1) It's pointless to publish third party content for an unfinished game (assuming that game's development wasn't terminated), particularly a playtest because it creates a chain reaction. When you publish content, players find that content interesting > When they find it interesting, they want to play it > When they want to play it, they hound their DM until he works it around so they can play it > When they do play it, they're not playing the first party content > When they don't play the first party content, they don't test it > When they don't test it, it defeats the whole point of running a playtest in the first place. 2) The games still quite early into development, and it's not only likely that there will be at least small tweaks to the way races work, it's probable. If this happens and creators don't update their creations in the database then it may cause issues for players and DMs in the future. (P.S. @[I][B][U][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=1"]Morrus[/URL][/U][/B][/I] : I know it's not high on the priority list, but if you do have a race/career/tradition database for the full version I'd like to suggest you leave an entry for the license under which the race/career/tradition is published. Some third party publishers may like to include samples from their products for example and may wish to stipulate the content's license. Additionally, I'd personally like to make my submission's license as visible as possible to the user so they know under what conditions they may make derivatives of my content, especially if I'm publishing derivative content to your site with permission of the original author.) [/QUOTE]
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