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Mack_JB · 08-16-2018, 10:03 PM

The trouble with all that that I see is that for the decades when TFT was OOP, TFT was already seeing fan made stuff commercially available, so SJG is just normalizing that already existing avenue for the future.

Ogre was never widely available as a product not made by SJG, so there's no real reason to essentially convert it to the public domain. And all those fan-made Ogre items will require SJG input to bring them up to speed and make them sale ready in the expected quality.

Lastly, TFT adventures / settings aren't quite like Ogre units ... there are already tons of free Ogre units and other items available online, so what financial incentive does SJG have to sell them now?

08-16-2018, 10:03 PM	#3
Mack_JB Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: St. Louis, Missouri	Re: You know I had to ask about doing this with Ogre... The trouble with all that that I see is that for the decades when TFT was OOP, TFT was already seeing fan made stuff commercially available, so SJG is just normalizing that already existing avenue for the future. Ogre was never widely available as a product not made by SJG, so there's no real reason to essentially convert it to the public domain. And all those fan-made Ogre items will require SJG input to bring them up to speed and make them sale ready in the expected quality. Lastly, TFT adventures / settings aren't quite like Ogre units ... there are already tons of free Ogre units and other items available online, so what financial incentive does SJG have to sell them now? Last edited by Mack_JB; 08-16-2018 at 10:50 PM.