How do you figure that exactly?

Mar 14, 2008 12:46

The role Green Ronin Publishing will play in the 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons landscape is still to be determined. It is the middle of March and it has been almost ten weeks since we and others were invited to participate in a conference call with Wizards of the Coast about the future of third party publishing and their plans for the new edition ( Read more... )

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hackard March 14 2008, 21:01:29 UTC
Sometimes I really hate people. The rest of the time, I feel even worse.

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pond823 March 14 2008, 21:10:50 UTC
I'm sitting here, twiddling my fingers yet armed with some of the finest minds at my disposal, waiting for the GSL and 4E kit. With the massive changes to the equipment and racial themes I'm also having to hold back artists just itching to draw green dragons emerging from underground lakes threatened by with men with spears.

I personally believe that 3rd editions success was partly due to the furrow plowed by Green Ronin first and the other early adopters soon afterwards. It upped everybodys game and I would bet that Wizards benefited far more than they lost out from having other quality publishers doing OGL books.

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mysticalforest March 14 2008, 22:27:53 UTC
I have not heard this from GR but speaking of ten weeks, I do keep hearing, a lot and by an increasing amount, the speculation that WotC is purposefully witholding the GSL et al to sandbag non-WotC companies when 4 first releases—to ensure WotC is the only one with 4 material in the first weeks of release.

I don't really believe that accusation because I'm a firm believer in the axiom of not attributing to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.

I'm just asking: Is WotC aware of how seriously damaging this delay is to its reputation among distributors, companies, and customers? Have you overheard anything you can repeat?

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freeport_pirate March 14 2008, 22:43:49 UTC
WotC could have simply said "no 3rd party 4E books in 2008" from the outset and I at least would not have complained. D&D is their game. If they had wanted to ensure the first six months of the release were all about the official product, I wouldn't have blamed them at all. If that is how the folks in charge really felt, that's fine; they just had to say it. It's the announcing one thing and doing something else that has people on edge.

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mysticalforest March 14 2008, 22:52:24 UTC
I completely agree—except for the not complaining part. I would have complained bitterly because I want my 3rd party 4 content.

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wordwill March 14 2008, 21:23:38 UTC
Word.

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emeraldlich March 14 2008, 21:30:24 UTC
It is the middle of March and it has been almost ten weeks since we and others were invited to participate in a conference call with Wizards of the Coast about the future of third party publishing and their plans for the new edition. The license under which third party publishers would be allowed to publish has not yet been made available and we have seen no more of the rules than have been released as previews or shown off in demos.

That still amazes me. Why bother with the call if there's still nothing to provide your potential third-party partners after ten weeks?

You would think the GSL would be done, approved, and in hand before contacting any partners on a call like that.

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hackard March 14 2008, 21:44:48 UTC
You must be new here. ;-)

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mysticalforest March 14 2008, 22:18:40 UTC
Hee hee!

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philreed March 14 2008, 22:27:07 UTC
It's also possible that the GSL was _almost_ done but initial feedback from publishers sent the project back to the drawing board.

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