In a message dated 17.11.2000 18:19:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< And, Mike, you're beating us to the punch with the historical stuff (vis a
vis us doing D20/Ars Magica crossover titles). ;) However, I have to
grudgingly concede that I'm VERY MUCH looking forward to your books, and
recommending them to the Ars Magica game fans.>>
Thank you! The Penumbra book is excellent and it has been an inspiration
(most impressively, the skillful way John Tynes avoided using Protected
Phrases (TM)). There have been Atlas/Avalanche crossovers before, if memory
serves - didn't Shadis do a Scotland the Brave/Ars Magica module using our
board game to generate happenings for Ars Magica adventurers?
<<This reminds me that one of the nice things about Open Gaming is that when
you sell some neat idea (say, a monster or spell) to one company, if it's
OGL'd you can go ahead and use it or refer to it in products for another
company. Which, honestly, is pretty cool.>>
Yes, Vlad the Impaler from "Last Days of Constantinople" would be available
to, well, impale in a D20/Ars Magica crossover adventure. And there is Greek
Fire. And cannons. The context (who is this man and why is he driven to
impale?) of course would not be "open." However, even though something may be
"open," I would not want to be re-print content from another publisher's work
and I suspect few others would, either.
Mike Bennighof
General Manager
Avalanche Press
