> > dunno about scenarios, but i think settings (either as wholes, or >> broken down in some way, like the rules parts above) should >> *definitely* be included. > >That's a good point. I just wasn't sure what the criteria would be to >make the award recognize the "open" part of an open setting. Is it the >best design? Most useful, most open? Most reuse? Most creative premise? >Best layout, editing? Maybe all of these criteria? > >If there should be such an award, I suppose I'd like to see some real >emphasis put on the openness of the setting rather than just the best >design. The ability for other publishers to re-use the setting and >create products that tie-in should weigh heavily.
of course. i was thinking criteria roughly along the lines of "most worthwhile setting contribution to OGC"--i.e., it has to be open (or at least a significant chunk of it open), and it has to have some artistic merit, so that others want to reuse it (doesn't matter if it's open if it's schlock). if i were doing the selecting, i'd first eliminate any settings that aren't "sufficiently open"--and i think a subjective measure would be much more useful than a word-count %age--and then see how good the remaining ones were. either order would work, it's just that right now i think you mucm more quickly narrow the field by culling the non-open ones. frex, you don't even have to consider the artistic merits (the really hard part) of most of the settings out there, since they aren't really open at all. frex, Scarred Lands really only has crunchy bits open, right? or am i missing a product? basically, i think that, whatever the specific criteria are [for this award], they *must* include the openness of the non-crunchy-bits portions of the setting--the "meat" of the setting, as it were. that's what makes it a setting award, rather than a rules award. which could get a little tricky, because you have things like Iron Kingdoms: there's a lot of info up on their website, but none of it is open content. so it's freely available, but not reusable, but as we all know, you can build on non-reusable stuff successfully, if you're careful, and especially given that it looks like many of the mechanical interpretations of the IK stuff will be open content. that said, i haven't looked at the actual products for IK yet, so for all i know all of the setting material in thea dventures is OGC. -- woodelf <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webpages.charter.net/woodelph/ If any religion is right, maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them. --Sinclair _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
