Dolmenwood is a combined OSR game and setting by Necrotic Gnome (who also makes Old-School Essentials). Kickstarter will go live on August 9th 2023.
On 13 Jul 2023, gbbgu wrote:
Dolmenwood is a combined OSR game and setting by Necrotic Gnome (who also
makes Old-School Essentials). Kickstarter will go live on August 9th 2023.
Looks like there's some debate about whether modifying the OSE rules and merging them into Dolmenwood was a good idea or not. This was prompted by the OGL mess and he pivoted to remove potentially troublesome SRD content.
Any thoughts, what are your preferences? I'll be participating cause I'm a shameless book dragon and always thirst to build my hoard of books.
On 14/07/2023 00:42, gbbgu wrote:
Any thoughts, what are your preferences? I'll be participating cause I'm a >> shameless book dragon and always thirst to build my hoard of books.
On the one hand, it would be nice to have a "condensed Dolmenwood" book
for people who don't want to buy an almost-the-same version of the same
rules yet again.
On the other hand, I can see how that would make things much more
expensive for Necrotic Gnome to do that product and the standalone as
well - and their reasons for doing the standalone seem logical.
Wizards' behaviour has completely poleaxed people's confidence in the
OGL, and people are right to be nervous of it going forwards. I am not surprised it's led to this outcome - it would be irresponsible of
Necrotic Gnome not to revised their product.
If the setting is interesting and evocative enough, it'll sell fine -
and if people who already own the OSE books really want the setting
stuff but don't want to devote shelf space to yet another BX
restatement, PDF is an option. They're making the best of a bad
situation, to be honest.
I was working on a small pet product that was to be highly OSE compatable using OGL and all the shenanigans were enough to kill my motivation to work on
it. Took me months to start working on it again. I'm sure other people feel the same, worried that supporting a product and having the rug pulled out.
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