on 1/26/03 11:29 PM, Matthew Sprange at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guys, > > 2. Ultimate Prestige Classes > I have to admit, I am a little confused on this issue, as I was under the > impression that it had been resolved. I was contacted a short while ago by > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (no proper name on his emails) who pointed out > the gaff we had made. I duly apologised, as I damn well should have done, > and asked what we could do to rectify the situation to his satisfaction. He > asked us to make a public announcement (which I did _immediatly_ via EN > World, the most public place I could think of) and to make the appropriate > changes in any reprints - naturally, I agreed to both. The person > responsible at Mongoose enjoyed a very serious talking to about keeping > track of section 15s and, as far as I was aware, that was the end of the > matter. If anyone is still out of sorts, please send me a mail and we'll > see what we can do. >
The posting to ENWorld was a short statement from Morrus to the effect that you had sent him a list of uncredited authors, followed by a listing of said authors and their classes. There was no indication that these were independent authors, or that they owned the copyrights to their materials and were not Mongoose employees. There is still the implication that all of their classes are copyright Mongoose Games. Also, while I don't know if any of the other d20 publishers have contacted Mongoose games regarding their own classes, I found many which were not listed in Section 15. There are 34 total non-mongoose games classes in the Ultimate Prestige Classes. Only 16 are actually listed in section 15. That leaves 18 unlisted classes, of which 13 were from the Netbook of Classes. 13 is not as impressive a number as 34, I agree, but it still represents 1/8 of the total content of the book. It was the single largest source outside of Mongoose Games. Giving credit to the netbook, while not a legal requirement, would have been gracious. Becky Glenn Netbook of Classes _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
