Re: [Open_Gaming] Open Content in Dunandralis

[Rogers Cadenhead]

At 07:20 PM 9/19/00 -0700, "kevin kenan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>But if you publish a 200 page beautifully illustrated, hardback
>sourcebook on Freeport backed by a steady stream of Freeport
>adventures with marketing and distribution help from, say, White Wolf,
>then you may just overshadow the original creator's 'cannon' material.

There's always that possibility, but both Green Ronin and I would
benefit from that competition. While it's possible that publishers
will go head-to-head in the same settings trying to become the
most well-established source, I think it's more likely that people
will stick to their own things unless there's an unmet need. There
are a number of gaming communities that would have kept roleplaying
games alive after publishers abandoned them -- one of them is The
Fantasy Trip. If that game had been published under an open license,
the community could still be supporting it with commercial products,
20 years after the publishers gave up on it.

Rogers Cadenhead
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.prefect.com
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