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<blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 3713387" data-attributes="member: 10531">Then people play Delvings and Denizens 3.5.1.&nbsp; Delvings and Denizens 3.5.1, you see, is a cut-and-paste of the Revised SRD, the OGL-licensed character creation and level advancement rules from Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved, the OGL-licensed XP system from Unearthed Arcana, the spell names from Necromancer Games' Original Spell Name Compendium, and the fifteen deities from Deities of The Faithful (an all-OGL web enhancement for The Bonds of Magic by Sean K Reynolds).&nbsp; It was published by {$_PUBLISHER_NAME} in September 2008 as two books (the Player's Guidebook for $29.95 and the Denizen Master's Manual for $39.95), with the art largely generic fantasy scenes purchased as second-use recycling for a flat fee.{$_PUBLISHER_NAME} saw its market share increase by over four-fold, to 12% of the RPG market by the middle of 2009, by filling the 3.5 core rules demand.&nbsp; And it made fat margins, since it had to pay nothing to writers or artists on the product that now represented 75% of its sales.&nbsp; It followed things up by launching its own $50/year online service, with an e-zine, an online virtual gametable on the company's servers based on the open source MapTool, a character generator based on the open source PCGen, and a character visualization tool licensed from an MMORPG's existing codebase.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="see, post: 3713387, member: 10531"] Then people play [I]Delvings and Denizens 3.5.1[/I]. [I]Delvings and Denizens 3.5.1[/I], you see, is a cut-and-paste of the Revised SRD, the OGL-licensed character creation and level advancement rules from Monte Cook's [I]Arcana Evolved[/I], the OGL-licensed XP system from [I]Unearthed Arcana[/I], the spell names from Necromancer Games' [I]Original Spell Name Compendium[/I], and the fifteen deities from [I]Deities of The Faithful[/I] (an all-OGL web enhancement for [I]The Bonds of Magic[/I] by Sean K Reynolds). It was published by {$_PUBLISHER_NAME} in September 2008 as two books (the Player's Guidebook for $29.95 and the Denizen Master's Manual for $39.95), with the art largely generic fantasy scenes purchased as second-use recycling for a flat fee. {$_PUBLISHER_NAME} saw its market share increase by over four-fold, to 12% of the RPG market by the middle of 2009, by filling the 3.5 core rules demand. And it made fat margins, since it had to pay nothing to writers or artists on the product that now represented 75% of its sales. It followed things up by launching its own $50/year online service, with an e-zine, an online virtual gametable on the company's servers based on the open source MapTool, a character generator based on the open source PCGen, and a character visualization tool licensed from an MMORPG's existing codebase. [/QUOTE]

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