I'm extremely excited about this whole process. Some questions
interjected below.
"Ryan S. Dancey" wrote:
>
> By providing you with the 3e PHB, you will have all the rules and systems
> needed to create products compatible with D20 as expressed in D&D. We will
> continue to provide information on magic items and monsters over the next
> few weeks to assist in that effort. In addition, we will provide
> information on how to use the 3e experience point system and the concept of
> monster "templates".
Will these be in the form of pre-release DMG and MM info? Or will we
just get copies of the appropriate chapters?
>
> In parallel, we're working on the D20SRD. The D20SRD may not be finished
> until the beginning of August and we want to help people who want to shoot
> for a GenCon product release if we can.
>
> We can give instructions for using the 3e materials so that you can overlap
> your efforts with the D20SRD and avoid problems when the final materials are
> released to the public. Those instructions may be more limiting than the
> contents of the final D20SRD, but we feel it will be easier to err on the
> side of caution than to have to try and clean up some problems later.
I would be interested in helping with the content of the SRD. I think
that with the work we will be doing here, we can add whatever info that
might be helpful for beginning developers.
>
> I expect that we will begin to transmit 3e materials by the end of this week
> or the beginning of next week.
Transmit? Is that via email or snail? If email then I'm assuming that
the snail addresses we are providing are for the lawyers if we break the
NDA.
>
> At the end of this week, I will close the ogf-d20-l list and remove all the
> existing subscriptions. As people respond with their approvals, I will add
> them to the ogf-d20-l list and the list will permit the discussion of NDA'd
> materials. After August 10th, I will remove this restriction and the list
> will revert to being public.
Interesting, but valuable.
>
> The Open Gaming License will probably not be approved for formal use until
> the 10th of August; and the D20 System Trademark License may be later than
> that. We are going to work on an interim solution for people who want to
> put the D20 logo on their products and I will attempt to have more
> information on this process ready sometime in the next two weeks.
We all look forward to seeing the interim solution... I believe that
most of us will want to be able to use the logo in August.
--
John J. Kaufman
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