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Re: Why isn't GURPS as popular as the D20 system and games
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02-12-2010, 03:55 PM | #492 |
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Re: Why isn't GURPS as popular as the D20 system and games
While I enjoy hardbound books most, I wouldn't mind seeing a few more soft cover GURPS books. I really have no idea how much more (if at all) cost effective that may be though.
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02-12-2010, 03:59 PM | #493 |
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02-12-2010, 04:06 PM | #494 | |
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The new GSL is very different from the OGL and the new SRD isn't a playable rules system but merely a list of page references in the D&D core rules that are available for licensee use. |
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02-12-2010, 04:20 PM | #495 |
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I even suspect that WotC's decision to make their own PDFs of d20 3rd Edi-
tion material unavailable had at least as much to do with an attempt to elimi- nate the "in house competition" for D&D 4 as with the piracy problem mentio- ned as their reason. |
02-12-2010, 04:24 PM | #496 |
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By "the OGL is gone" I meant that there is no equivalent for the new "d20 System". If you think there is, try to run a game using nothing but the new SRD. The new "d20 System" isn't functionally the same system the OP was trolling for.
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02-12-2010, 04:33 PM | #497 |
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Yep, I agree completely.
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02-12-2010, 04:59 PM | #498 |
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Re: Why isn't GURPS as popular as the D20 system and games
There is no 4th edition d20 SRD, no. However, given the nature of the SRD/OGL of 3.5 edition d20, any sufficiently strong publisher could pick it up and run with it much like how Paizo has made off with Pathfinder. I find this particularly amusing because when the OGL was explained, they addressed the question of, "Couldn't someone publish and sell the SRD?" And the answer was yes, they could, but who would pay for it if it already existed for free? The point wasn't so much that people wouldn't buy it, but that it could still be sold. And with the official abandonment for 3.5, a market gap has opened.
New name, some slight updates to the rules, republish and prosper. Last edited by Mylon; 02-12-2010 at 05:09 PM. |
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EDIT: And there is a 4e SRD. I linked to it upthread. The GSL is a much more traditional case by case license. AFAICT the SRD is a list of things that WotC might allow a license to use. |
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02-12-2010, 05:13 PM | #500 | |
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The 4th edition SRD is useless in comparison. Possibly useful as a reference guide or some kind of universal index, but it's not a standalone document. |
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