Richard Stewart wrote: > lizard wrote: > > "c)No one else has really jumped on the bandwagon. Both GURPS and BESM have > adopted very limited and controlled licensing arrangements with third > parties, and that's really about it." > > Steve Jackson (GURPS) has been doing it for quite some time, WELL before > D&D3e came out. Guardians of Order (BESM) doing more of a publishing house > than anything else. >
The only non-SJG GURPS product I can think of prior to 3e (August, 2000) was the very short-lived "IST Kingston". (Yeah, we'll take a superhero universe which isn't very four color, and then we'll make a supplement for it based in JAMAICA, which is just the sort of place comic-book superheroes hang out! We'll outsell RIFTS!) If I'm wrong, let me know, but I think all SJG did prior to the recent "Powered by GURPS" was license IP for their own use (GURPS Traveller, Deadlands, Falkenstein, etc) -- not allow other companies to use the GURPS engine and trademarks. > The closest to coming round, I think, to being similar is Mark's idea being > put into play at Gold Rush Games, which you left out completely. :) > Well, two reasons: 1)I forgot about it. 2)It's not actually OUT yet. > Then you have to ask yourself, why create another "open" system? Because no system is truly universal, not even universal systems? _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
