My point being the only people this is an issue with are manufactures. The
active gamer, who happens to be DM'ing an adventure, is NOT affected at all
by this. They will still use the books, still use the monsters, and so on,
regardless of the tiny print in the back of the book. Not one single DM will
email Clark for permission to use 'The Overly Heavy Hammer of Bug
Squashing', nor will they change the name of the item to respect the PI..
The only people that need to email Clark for permission or change the names
are manufacturers of gaming material, writers, artists, etc who want use
'The Overly Heavy Hammer of Bug Squashing'. This will result in such a low
number of 'lost sales' that it probably isn't worth losing sleep over.
Pardon my bluntness, but why would a gaming manufacturer care if a
competitor bought their product and used bits of it for their own products?
It would be neat and all, but if I released 'Monsters2000' to the public,
and it sold fairly well, do you really think I would care one way or another
if you bought my book and used monsters from it? My market is the basement
gamer, the weekend warriors, the geeks who are sitting in a circle rolling
dice on Friday night instead of out at a club.. that is my market. A fringe
market of other manufacturers exists, but do you really think anyone is
going to worry about that when designing a product? 'Oooo..if I don't PI
this monster, maybe Roger will put it in his adventure..' Not to be a
prick, because I did want to move away from the abusiveness in the last few
days, I am just trying to illustrate how silly the arguement that PI causes
lost sales sounds. I apologize if this comes off too rough or unkind, that
is not the intent.. I just find it much simpler to express myself directly
rather than hunting for the nice way to say stuff.
-Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rogers Cadenhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] Re: [Open_Gaming] Product Identity question
> At 02:21 PM 4/15/2001 -0700, "Grok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >For what group is it costing sales? Perhaps for the manufactures that may
> >want to use the PI'd material in other games, but that might amount to
maybe
> >20 sales total? I certainly didn't bear that consideration in mind at all
> >when I dropped my cash on the counter.
>
> I think it's costing you sales because fewer people are going to use
Creature
> Collection monsters in their own D20 products because they don't want the
> hassle of licensing them from you, and those kinds of products encourage
> people to buy your book.
>
> The whole point of a book of monsters is reuse. Preventing the names and
> descriptions from being reused strikes me as a particularly ineffective
way to
> make use of D20.
>
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