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GSL Posted
Wizards of the Coast have posted their Game System License for D&D 4th edition. I'm not surprised at most of the terms; the FAQ did, in fact, seem to spell out most of the bad news. To wit, there is a major poison pill clause which aims to prevent you from ever creating or selling an OGL based product once you have published a GSL version of it. ( Read more... ) -
My defition of Rightfun... (and a sad announcement).
(Swiped from RPGnet)
When it comes to various pronouncements of Wrongfun, I often find myself sandwiched between old schoolers declaring my fun Wrongfun and disciples of the New Shiny declaring my fun wrongfun.
But once in a while, someone comes along who makes a proclamation that makes my fun seem like Rightfun. Here's one such proclamation, from ( Read more... ) -
I'm baaack...
Last week was spent vacationing with the family. We flew out to California for my brother-in-law's retirement from the Navy. We went out a bit early and met with my sister-in-law's family to visit Disneyland.
We had been to Disney World several times, but this was our first visit to Disneyland. Many aspects of the trip were repeats of the Disney ( Read more... ) -
Monte Just Can't Kick the Habit
Well, us 3.5 holdouts have two main sources we look to when considering what our gaming future might look like: Paizo's Pathfinder and Monte Cook's Books of Experimental Might.
Well now, it seems those two visions might come into conjunction, and we might be playing 3.voltron...
Monte Cook Joins the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game™ Team
Co-creator of 3rd ( Read more... ) -
ENWorld/CM MIA?
Anyone know what's up with ENWorld/CM? Did spoony say anything about maintenance?
UPDATE:
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More light on the WotC/GenCon situation
This popped up on gamingreport.com. Short story, if the filing shown is accurate: GenCon LLC owes Hasbro more money than they owe LucasFilm. This might make Wizards of the Coast's tardiness in committing to GenCon seem a bit more sensible. Of course, it makes sense to keep GenCon solvent so they can pay off their debts, but perhaps Hasbro thinks ( Read more... ) -
On Convenient Coincidences and Concurrent Thought
So, I was contemplating my GenCon Spycraft games, and getting really jazzed at the prospects of the adventure. It just so happens that while researching ideas for one of the pregens, I ran across a thread that refers to a short story that sounds curiously similar to my adventure idea. Following links and inquiring more, it turns out I own this ( Read more... ) -
That "click"
Just a bit of introspection...
When trying to conceive adventures, settings, etc., I often come up with a laundry list of concepts I'm interested in, scenes I want to put in, villains I want to stat up, and so forth. But often these feel incomplete, lacking certain logical connections and backing. So much so that if I try to actually use these ( Read more... ) -
Fears unfounded?
I had been hanging on Wizards' every word with regard to the GSL, and wondering what would come of some fearful predictions about what it might entail for variant D20 and non-D20 games. (By variant D20 games, I mean D20 STL based games like Mutants & Masterminds and Spycraft that now have a very weak link to D&D and aren't likely to be affected by ( Read more... ) -
No news, not necessarily good news
A bit of an update on the GSL situation.
Scott Rouse had indicated he may have more information Monday (yesterday), instead he asked ENWorld to submit interview questions. Such questions were collected; the ones I submitted were patterned after my three "scenarios" I put forth 2 entries ago.
Today, though, we get the announcement that this interview ( Read more... )