I receive a message from Martin Shoemaker (and then replied to it) which I think brings up some good points. There's another that'll follow. Just more food for thought as we work through this issue.
alec ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 11:19:10 -0700 (MST) From: Alec A. Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Ogf-l] OGC designation for Tome of Horrors On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Martin L. Shoemaker wrote: > Alec, > > I'm in Manila this week, and can't post to the list. > > > Is the former idea proposed by the netbooks > > (listing every single spell/feat/item in s.15) acceptable? > > While I think Clark's "template" approach is clever, I think the > item-by-item listing as you approach is better. In a case like Clark's, the > original publisher might argue that that would make an overly long section > 15. (I don't think Clark would argue: he just wants what works.) But suppose > that I wrote a mega-adventure that used every single monster in Clark's > book. Clark's template would require me to separately list every single one > of those monsters in my expansion of his section 15. If that's good enough > for me, shouldn't it be good enough for him? And the item-by-item listing > gets away from any arguments about "exact text". Not sure I'm following you completely. The netbook approach would require the listing of every single monster used as well. In fact the former argument was that you had to include the entire list even if you used just one item. If you look at Clark's example, it's not necessary to list every monster used individually - he allows the combining of monster names followed by authors followed by origination. This would actually result in a much smaller s.15 than the if someone did what you are suggesting under former netbook concept. alec btw - would you like me to forward your message & my reply to the list to aid in the discussion _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
