» Because you weren’t confused enough: WotC modifies the D&D 4 license deal
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Because you weren’t confused enough: WotC modifies the D&D 4 license deal
Announcement. The upshot as far as I can tell is that the SRD will now be free, to someone anyway, and the go date for publishing 4E GSL-licensed material will be October, not January 2009 or whatever it was. That is, the associated SRD will be free for download on 6/6, and a few hand-picked folks are getting it early. And guess what: something called a D20 license (in this case, a D20 GSL) will be coming back, for the benefit of third parties who’d like to do non-fantasy material. Still no word, from what I can tell, on what either GSL’s terms actually are.
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James S. Says: April 17th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Y’know at the rate this stuff keeps changing I’m finding Paizo’s Pathfinder more and more appealing daily.
pduggie Says: April 18th, 2008 at 7:40 am
“non-fantasy”. Can’t wait to see how that gets enforced.
Lee Valentine Says: April 20th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Wow, they are going to make publishers pick the OGL or the GSL. If you publish a product under one you can’t publish the product under the other:
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=224217
It may be even more restrictive than a product-by-product basis, it may be a publisher-by-publisher basis as to choose the GSL or the OGL, but that was unconfirmed by WotC.
Lee
Starhawk Says: April 20th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
“I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”
Dai Oni Says: May 27th, 2008 at 1:20 am
“non-fantasyâ€. Can’t wait to see how that gets enforced. — pduggie
Hopefully with a new edition of d20 Modern? Otherwise it’s going to be like before, everyone have their own ideas of meta-gaming non-fantasy elements (e.g., automatic weapon fire, nuclear blast, etc.).
misuba Says: May 27th, 2008 at 9:17 am
(That’s it, now I’m convinced; the term “meta-gaming” has no meaning.)