2. Weighing of time equation you propose is wrong. YouWouldn't the proper equation for Chaosim here be:
say "time defending my declartions" versus "time to
fix it" weighs in favor of fixing them. I would say
their time "defending their declarations" is ZERO and
the "time to fix it" is more than zero (though perhaps
not much). Thus, the weighing you propose actually (as
was my intial point) comes out in favor of not fixing
things.
Assumed profit from revised book - cost to revise the book
i.e., if it takes them ten minutes of $100/hour lawyer-time and two hours of $25 game-designer time to fix the problem, then they'd need to be convinced that they'd gain an additional $60 in profit--if they make 10% on a $20 book, then I'd need to find 30 people who _would_ buy the book if it was fixed for it to be worth it to them just on a break-even standpoint.
And so long after production, I'm as likely to wait for ELH to enter the SRD as I am to pick up Elric for their epicish rules. So, you're right, they have no reason to re-issue the book.
Now, in a like vein, I have no reason to purchase their book, nor to pursue a PI license to make an "Elric adventure." Unless I'm a fan who wants the "offical" rules for d20 Elric, I'm just as well using their home-grown system or using D&D's own system for epic-level power.
There will be no litigation over this specificThere you go again, pointing out the potential benefit of someone standing up and sending out lawyer-grams for noteworthy OGL works. We're never going to convince anyone that we don't want to take them to court and sue them if you keep doing that! ;)
Chaosium book ever. So that is a non-factor as to this
product. However, if a product were possibly the
subject of litigation there would be NO DOUBT that the
publisher would fix whatever percieved problems were
there (or at least attempt to do so in some way; for
an example see Mongoose and the Feats book).
DM
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