>From: "Ryan S. Dancey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: "Bryce Harrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > > Sorry - you lost me there.
> >
> > FAQ # A.05
>
>Sorry - you're referring to an unofficial and unendorsed FAQ which I have
>no interest in formally supporting. I wouldn't be able to comment one way
>or the other on anything it contains.
Bryce:
And RIGHTLY so (although that never stopped him before). But remember the
caveat at the very beginning of the FAQ:
"This FAQ is not authorized by, nor in any way connected
with, either Wizards of the Coast or the Open Gaming Foundation."
Although Mr. Dancey provided comments and edits on the FAQ on more than one
occasion, it is intentionally independent of both him and of the OGF.
I wrote the FAQ with a single intention - to maintain a balanced non-FAN,
non-WotC viewpoint on all the issues. I feel very strongly about the issue
of "openness" and did not want these concepts to become just another
"marketing tool" for the game I have played and loved for the last thirty+
years. The FAQ is intended to be independent so that the readers can be
certain that I am doing my best to not mislead them.
So it is my personal preference to maintain more than a little distance
between myself and the "foundation" (or rather "the concept that might or
might not actually become a foundation" since we do not really have anything
like a "foundation" yet.)
IMO, part of what you are banging your head against is the difference
between "what would be nice" and "what is possible in the real world".
i.e.:
1) "It would be nice", if we had a free and open gaming
community, like the linux community, where everybody worked
together to improve and add on to the core product.
versus:
2) "In the real world", the holder of a multi-million dollar
IP is unlikely to be dumb enough to ever lose control of it.
Sorry, but that is just reality & we have to work within its confines.
Incidently, for a more "WotC-centric" FAQ, see Doug's "Party-Line" FAQ at:
http://home.nycap.rr.com/steelstone/OGF_FAQ.htm
His FAQ is freely distributable and is intended to show the WotC
"party-line" (rather than the counterpoint that mine is intended to
portray).
Thanks;
Faust
For the "REAL TRUTH" on what the insiders DON'T want you to know about he
Open Gaming Foundation, see the (unoffical, unexpurgated, no-holds-barred)
OGL/D20 FAQ at:
http://www.earth1066.com/D20FAQ.htm
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