OK, everyone settle down.
There seems to be a lot of speculation that I am "shaken" by the GSL and that maybe Necro will be going Pathfinder.
I am not shaken by the GSL. It is pretty much what I expected. It has a couple twists (such as the convert and cant go back provision). It has a few things I want clarified (does the "cant go back to OGL" also apply to new 4E products that werent conversions? why are the specific demons and devils in the SRD? what exactly does "redefine terms" mean?).
Most likely, because of the terms of the license, we wont be able to do a "Tome of Horrors" for 4E because that would mean having to stop selling pdfs of the Tome 3E, which I dont want to do. That was what led me to ask the "product by product" question in the first place. I was ok with what I thought the "product line" answer I got meant, but now seeing the GSL it is a bit more restrictive on that than I thought. Erik and I had already discussed doing a Tome of Horrors for pathfinder in print since we never did a print version of the Tome Revised and Pathfinder seemed like a great chance to do that. So that plan was in the works. This isnt a change to Pathfinder, it is saying that we are likely only doing Tome for Pathfinder and NOT for both Pathfinder and 4E.
There are also some singinficant unaswered questions regarding Tegel Manor. I just got off the phone with Bob Jr. Wizards is going to have to give us some very clear answers to some questions before Tegel can be a 4E product. It may well not be a 4E product. Now, that doesnt mean it will be a 3E product either. Its hard to say. That one is back up in the air, and a lot of the decision on this will be up to Bob not me. I certainly am not going to tie up JG content with a license if it means something bad for Bob.
That said, there will definately be some significant 4E products from Necro.
We anticipate the Advanced Player's Guide (with some slight modification) will be a 4E go.
We anticipate the Iron Tower Adventure Path will be a 4E go.
We anticipate several of our pending adventures will be a 4E go.
One or two of our adventures that are in the hopper will likely need some questions answered because of their use of content from prior 3E products.
So yes Necro will be doing 4E for sure. No doubt. We will also do at least one and maybe a few 3.5/Pathfinder products.
Everyone please let the dust settle on this for a few days.
Clark
There seems to be a lot of speculation that I am "shaken" by the GSL and that maybe Necro will be going Pathfinder.
I am not shaken by the GSL. It is pretty much what I expected. It has a couple twists (such as the convert and cant go back provision). It has a few things I want clarified (does the "cant go back to OGL" also apply to new 4E products that werent conversions? why are the specific demons and devils in the SRD? what exactly does "redefine terms" mean?).
Most likely, because of the terms of the license, we wont be able to do a "Tome of Horrors" for 4E because that would mean having to stop selling pdfs of the Tome 3E, which I dont want to do. That was what led me to ask the "product by product" question in the first place. I was ok with what I thought the "product line" answer I got meant, but now seeing the GSL it is a bit more restrictive on that than I thought. Erik and I had already discussed doing a Tome of Horrors for pathfinder in print since we never did a print version of the Tome Revised and Pathfinder seemed like a great chance to do that. So that plan was in the works. This isnt a change to Pathfinder, it is saying that we are likely only doing Tome for Pathfinder and NOT for both Pathfinder and 4E.
There are also some singinficant unaswered questions regarding Tegel Manor. I just got off the phone with Bob Jr. Wizards is going to have to give us some very clear answers to some questions before Tegel can be a 4E product. It may well not be a 4E product. Now, that doesnt mean it will be a 3E product either. Its hard to say. That one is back up in the air, and a lot of the decision on this will be up to Bob not me. I certainly am not going to tie up JG content with a license if it means something bad for Bob.
That said, there will definately be some significant 4E products from Necro.
We anticipate the Advanced Player's Guide (with some slight modification) will be a 4E go.
We anticipate the Iron Tower Adventure Path will be a 4E go.
We anticipate several of our pending adventures will be a 4E go.
One or two of our adventures that are in the hopper will likely need some questions answered because of their use of content from prior 3E products.
So yes Necro will be doing 4E for sure. No doubt. We will also do at least one and maybe a few 3.5/Pathfinder products.
Everyone please let the dust settle on this for a few days.
Clark
