Tribute and Attribution Question

[JohnRTroy]

Can somebody who has the print books already post what they wrote about Gary Gygax--the tribute at the beginning?

Also, does the book have a statement that's the rules are derived from the original game by Gygax and Arneson, like what's included in all the core books and even the OGL SRD blurb on the back of all derived docs?

Do they mention the designers of 3e at all?

 

[Dragonblade]

I don't have my friend's book in front of me (Amazon hasn't delivered mine yet), but I saw a blurb that said something like "building on the prior work of..." and then lists Gygax, Arneson for 1st edition, David Zeb Cook for 2e, and then Monte and the gang for 3e.

There is also a line dedicating the game to the memory of Gary Gygax,

 

[Mark]

There is also a line dedicating the game to the memory of Gary Gygax,

That's nice.

 

[theredrobedwizard]

Building on the Design of Previous Editions by E. Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson (1st Edition and earlier); David “Zeb” Cook (2nd Edition); Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Richard Baker, Peter Adkison (3rd Edition)

Dedicated to the memory of E. Gary Gygax

-TRRW

 

[JohnRTroy]

Hmm...I note they say "building on" rather than "based on". Does that have some kind of different meaning from a legal perspective. This is how its credited in the SRD

System Reference Document Copyright 2000-2003, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Rich Baker, Andy Collins, David Noonan, Rich Redman, Bruce R. Cordell, John D. Rateliff, Thomas Reid, James Wyatt, based on original material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

I forget what the PHB says.

My thought--if "building" is different from "based on", it means nobody can claim royalties (assuming any were/are available), and it makes sure legally this is seen as a completely different game in case somebody tried to make a 4e clone and defends it by declaring it uses the same rule set as that released under the OGL SRD.

Dunno. *Shrug*

Anyway, it's good they credit everybody involved with the primary products, including Zeb. And the Gygax tribute was nice.