The attack is meritted in this circumstance, as the issue was why would you
PI things.. Since he has not produced anything for the game which could be
taken, used without permission, and turned into a profit for himself, the
point stands.. If he wants to release an entire world with everything open
content, then there better never come a day that the complains that someone
took his idea and is making more money on it than he is.. It is for this
sort of protection that one PI's material. If I want to use a monster from
CC, then either I make a new name for it, or I ask permission to use the
name.. can't get much simpler than that. Since this is a fantasy game, lets
look at a fantasy setting.. Say, for the sake of arguement, that Clark
decided to make all his stuff Open. He makes a pretty penny on his Critter
book. All is good. I come along and make an adventure that includes some of
his monsters. For whatever reason, this adventure is hugely successful,
outselling everything on the market, backordered for weeks, and becomes the
benchmark that all adventures are compared against.. I rake in the phat
coinage. Poor Clark, who developed the monsters I used in the adventure, is
bent over and abused.. Is this what you want to see? He has no legal ground
to stand on, and can only watch as I use his ideas to toss together stuff.
Now, admittedly I could do the same adventure but name the critter
differently, but maybe it was the name that made the game.. who knows.
Regardless of what Karl may have done outside of the community, it has
nothing to do with the bearing of the d20 community.. I am sure Mother
Theresa was a great person, but that doesn't mean she could write a d20
adventure ;)
-Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neal Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Also, FWIW, I think it's bogus to attack people like
> Kal on the basis that they haven't released a d20
> product or haven't released as big a product as
> someone else has. People are entitled to their
> opinions, and I don't think that a person's point of
> view magically becomes correct as soon as he or she
> has published a d20 module. <VBG>
>
> Neal
>
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