What do 3rd-party publishers think of the GSL?

[Kzach]

I know this possibly should be in the publisher's forum but I posted it here because I thought that the general population might be interested in hearing what 3rd-party publishers have to say about the GSL.

Now that it's out and official, I'd like to hear TPP impressions of it and if they have any intentions to publish under it, or if WotC's tardiness and the restrictions of the license has put them off completely.

There was a lot of great, even excellent material produced for 3.x and a lot of talented people made a name for themselves as creative professionals in the industry. I think it'd be interesting to see who survived the fallout and is ready to produce again; I know I, for one, would like to see a lot of them stand up and make 4e material.

 

[Piratecat]

Not a rules thread, doesn't belong here. Off we go!

 

[Vigilance]

Looks perfectly acceptable to me.

After all the comments made by Scott and others, it was just about 100% what I was expecting.

My one quibble would be a desire to reprint monsters, at least in statblock form, for adventure purposes.

 

[defendi]

I feel much the same. I can certainly do what I want to do with it. I might not be able to do it the WAY I wanted, but you can't have everything. I think it's very workable.

 

[Ralts Bloodthorne]

We've heard several times they are redesigning d20 Modern, and d20 Future...

If this new GSL is a sneak peek at the GSL for the new systems, then most modern products will be "Everyone holds hands and sings songs together" or some crap like that.

So I don't like the new GSL, I don't like what it is showing me about just what WotC has decided what is good, what is bad, and what is verboten by them.

 

[Darrin Drader]

Quite honestly, I can't imagine a version of the 4th edition (modern and future) rules that would work the way I want with Reign of Discordia, so I think that setting will stay right where its at for a good long while.

I may not be the publisher, but I do own the IP, so it goes only where I say it can go.

 

[Pinotage]

From a customer point of view, the use of the GSL is also annoying. You can't, for example, print monster stat blocks, you can't include rule text, etc. Everything has to be referenced. So if you just want to run a GSL adventure, the adventure itself is not nearly going to be as useful on its own, because you'll need to keep flipping between the 3 core books as well. That sucks a little for us consumers. It was nice to have everything you need handy within one place. The rules aren't such an issue, but not having stat blocks is a pain.

Pinotage

 

[Urizen]

Quite honestly, I can't imagine a version of the 4th edition (modern and future) rules that would work the way I want with Reign of Discordia, so I think that setting will stay right where its at for a good long while.

I may not be the publisher, but I do own the IP, so it goes only where I say it can go.

After reading the Gsl, you won't have to worry about that.

I'm fairly certain I won't be adopting this license.

 

[Bacris]

I'm extremely disappointed that converting an OGL product line to the GSL means the OGL product line has to disappear. Part of the wonderful thing about PDFs is that you don't have to worry about it "going out of print".

It's funny, I don't see Wizards retiring their 1E, 2E, or 3E PDF product lines, but I have to do that?

Unless I'm given some overwhelming reason to, don't expect to see an Untapped Potential 4E, a Third Dawn 4E, or a High Psionics 4E.

 

[philreed]

My one word response to the GSL?

No.