From: "Lizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>I write a novel. It is 300 pages long. At the end of the novel, I
>>>describe the characters, spells, monsters, and magic items which
>>>appeared in the novel in D20 terms.
From: "Ryan S. Dancey"
>>My argument is that this is not a D20 product, and should not have the
>>D20 trademarks on it.
From: "Lizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>How do you draw the line between such a product, and a separate
>'sourcebook' for a published world? It seems to me that if I took the
>"D20 Appendix" from the novel and republished it as "Lizardworld
>Sourcebook For D20", I would be well within both the spirit and the
>letter of the (proposed) liscense. So publishing novel&sourcebook as a
>single entity violates the license, but publishing them separately does
>not? (The novel, of course, would not bear a D20 logo under these terms)
Even better, publish the novel in standard splatbook size. Have the
character stats be a chapter or section at the end, not an appendix.
Suddenly it is a source book with lots of flavor text, rather than a novel,
without changing the actual content. Meanwhile the production costs have
(probably) increased and sales have (probably) decreased. Oh, and the new
product doesn't lasso any new customers into the gaming market.
Wasn't the point of all this to grow the consumer market for RPG products
(which would, presumably, grow WotC's sales)?
Walter
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