CrimsonHawk
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I am (very slowly) writing a campaign setting for share with the world. It'll be packaged as a campaign guide/player's guide, since that seems to be a winning strategy. I intend it to be a fan-work, not a for-profit project... I'll probably post the books on Scribd and share the links here when I'm finally done.
The thing that worries me is the GSL in respects to the PHB2. Apparently, only the half-orc, gnome, barbarian, bard, druid, and sorcerer are included in the SRD. When I asked on Gleemax whether this was intentional or if they simply had not gotten around to including the deva, goliath, shifter, avenger, invoker, shaman, and warden yet, I didn't get an answer... instead I got a jackhole with an intellectual superiority complex who decided it would be physically stimulating to him to lecture to me about intellectual property rights rather than actually answer my question. Then the forum went fallow.
If my assumptions are correct (and mind you I still haven't gotten my assumptions confirmed or denied yet), then if I were to follow the GSL to the letter, I would never mention deva, goliaths, shifters, avengers, invokers, shamans, and wardens in my setting books.
That bothers me. A LOT. I have spent a great deal of time warming up to the concept of "if it appears in the rules, it's somewhere in the world." If one of my readers wanted to play a deva invoker in my setting, they'd have to ask their personal DM how deva and invokers fit into the world... since I can't explain it in my books.
So, here is my primary question (although someone giving an informative and polite response to the question I've discussed above would be greatly appreciated, too). If you were writing a fan-work, free-to-share campaign book for your personal campaign to share with the world at large, would you still discuss the "forbidden elements" from the PHB2 in your books, or would you respect the GSL to the letter and forego discussing them?
Thanks a million for your courteous and thoughtful responses!
The thing that worries me is the GSL in respects to the PHB2. Apparently, only the half-orc, gnome, barbarian, bard, druid, and sorcerer are included in the SRD. When I asked on Gleemax whether this was intentional or if they simply had not gotten around to including the deva, goliath, shifter, avenger, invoker, shaman, and warden yet, I didn't get an answer... instead I got a jackhole with an intellectual superiority complex who decided it would be physically stimulating to him to lecture to me about intellectual property rights rather than actually answer my question. Then the forum went fallow.
If my assumptions are correct (and mind you I still haven't gotten my assumptions confirmed or denied yet), then if I were to follow the GSL to the letter, I would never mention deva, goliaths, shifters, avengers, invokers, shamans, and wardens in my setting books.
That bothers me. A LOT. I have spent a great deal of time warming up to the concept of "if it appears in the rules, it's somewhere in the world." If one of my readers wanted to play a deva invoker in my setting, they'd have to ask their personal DM how deva and invokers fit into the world... since I can't explain it in my books.
So, here is my primary question (although someone giving an informative and polite response to the question I've discussed above would be greatly appreciated, too). If you were writing a fan-work, free-to-share campaign book for your personal campaign to share with the world at large, would you still discuss the "forbidden elements" from the PHB2 in your books, or would you respect the GSL to the letter and forego discussing them?
Thanks a million for your courteous and thoughtful responses!
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