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What makes you say that it is not an OGL product. It has a Reference document here: http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ The reference document has been constantly updated as they have released new material for the game. It says on this page: I realize it states that the PRD is not the official game, but neither were the WotC SRDs.

I don't own ME:AoE but I bought ME:AoC in print ( I haven't read it yet, but it looks superb). The only way that someone could do what you are saying is if the OGL allowed for it or the owners of the copyright made it OGC. There should be a statement in the book designating what is OGC and what is not OGC. I think that if Mongoose was worried about it, they would specify which sections of the document were OGC and which were not. Someone mentioned that it seems ok to reproduce the rules on a web site. I actually don't see the difference between having the rules on a web site or having them in a file on my computer. The difference to me is that I don't make money when I check a rule in a file, whereas the web site owner may be making advertising money if I visit their site. Having said that, I understand why you would feel the way you do. According to Ryan Dancey one of the main ideas behind the OGL was to prevent the rules for DnD ever going into limbo because the owning company went bankrupt. Which is what almost happened before TSR was saved by Wizards of the Coast.

This is text from the Monsters of Legend pdf. I highlighted certain text.

What would make you feel uncomfortable about it ? I am led to believe that if Mongoose did not want someone to re-use the text in another format they would not put a page in the document saying that the whole document ( excluding images ) is OGC. Having a text document with the OGC text sans illustrations is in no way going to prevent people from buying the formatted illustrated pdf from Mongoose. I bought the Monsters pdf myself. I think if I was an author, I would definitely think about protecting my writing under the OGL before it was published, and make sure I understood exactly how the OGL works. Mongoose is fully aware of how the OGL functions, and it is their fully informed business strategy to publish under the OGL, and to make all of the text OGC. The Legend pdf is still the hottest pdf on drivethrurpg, and Equipment of Legend is #3.

Just saw this on MovieCentral here in Canada. Really enjoyed it. Had some good drama, a good character, some action and some humorous parts. Could definitely have some good roleplaying possibilities.

Someone who purchased it could even copy and paste the text (including the OGL) into a text document and we could all see exactly what is included, since all of the Legend line is OGC.

The first question I would ask is: What genre of game are you looking to run ? Fantasy, ScFi, Modern, multiple genres ?

Thanks. I just got my copy from amazon last week. My first impressions are very good. I like the idea of having a campaign to introduce beginning players to the setting ( similar to the old RQ Borderlands campaign pack). I think it might be handy to have a 1 or 2 page pdf introduction/overview of the empire for prospective purchasers/players to give them a taste of the flavour of the setting. There is a lot more to this setting than I thought when I ordered it.

I think it is related to trademark law. John Carter and Barsoom are trademarks of ERB Inc. or something like that. Same with Tarzan.

Did this get posted somewhere yet ?

I think a better analogy might be Dark Sun. The decadent, harsh, and gritty feel of Dark Sun would be closer to CoFE. Because FR is so different from the feel of CoFE your written comments came across as slagging FR. Dark Sun also started as a campaign in small area ( city state) of a larger world, and the world got fleshed out with the supplements that followed. I would probably try to run a campaign set in Dark Sun before trying to set it in in CoFE. Even though I would need to convert the material to BRP, I know the setting material exists for Dark Sun. In order to run a campaign beyond the scenarios in CoFE, I'll have to invent most of the setting. Given my limited time I would rather do the conversion of existing scenarios. I would run the scenarios for CoFE that are available, then wait for more to be published... Now if a company like Alephtar or Cubicle 7 was publishing material for the setting, I would feel confident that more material was on the horizon, and I would be more likely to consider a campaign using it as a setting.

This is the scenario in the compilation. I ran it as one shot using Fantasy Grounds a year and a half ago. Players really liked it. Hence my question last year.

Honestly you can't go wrong buying the $1 pdf of the Legend core rules: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=97239

D101 games has a nice d100 "Conanesque" supplement: http://d101games.co.uk/books/openquest/the-savage-north/ http://basicroleplaying.com/showthread.php/2482-THE-SAVAGE-NORTH

Well that is good to hear. They do seem to know what they are doing at Paizo. You can get the contents of the boxed set and the additional material for the Paizo Beginner box in PDF format. They think of everything. If you subscribe to any of the Paizo products you get a free pdf copy of it. Including their fiction line.

I would guess that they are pricing their product with greater insight. He also adds his definition of hobby game (rpg): I find that as I have aged, I have less and less time to devote to preparing a game. I don't have the time to invent an entire world for every campaign. Doesn't mean I enjoy gaming and rping less, but it does mean I will steer towards a game that has prepared scenarios etc.

On the topic of boxed sets I'm quoting an article from Ryan Dancey found here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/news/315800-4-hours-w-rsd-escapist-bonus-column.html It gives an idea of why rpg content doesn't come in boxes very often. I tend to think that Paizo is doing a loss leader with their PF Starter Boxed set. The entire column is an interesting read. The idea of rpgs generating network effects is also interesting:

Token tool is awesome, it doesn't get any easier.

It is always nice to see cooperation among interested parties. Sometimes when reading these forums you'd think that the publishers were all out to get each other. Of course maybe it is just a plan to get the others to lower their guard.

There is a good review of Merrie England here: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_reviews.php?products_id=98069&it=1&SRC=newsletter_reviews

I haven't really experienced a problem with this so far. I mainly do screenshots of maps from the adventure pdf so that the maps aren't too big. I know you can set images to pre-load when the players log on, but I usually don't do this. Not sure if that is something that makes much of a difference. . Happy to say I haven't experienced this yet. Fingers crossed. I haven't tried this since I don't have the time or knowledge. A friend is working on a RQ2 ruleset and has put in a lot of hours. Still waiting for it with fingers crossed. I think that the newest programmer to join their team has done some really great improvements, and he has a wishlist of features he is hoping to implement. Never hurts to drop him some suggestions on the forum. Moon_wizard I believe is very responsive. Do you mean the short cut keys across the bottom of the FG2 screen or a different feature. I have no clue, and I think the only support for this will be from others users of FG. That is good to hear. I think the changes to the program have been good. Hopefully they will improve your experience. I have been running the program on a relatively new laptop and noticed increased performance since I made the change. I'm guessing the amount of RAM and the processor speed can make a big difference if you are GMing games.

I did play around with it early on and it did feel intuitive for the most part. I'm not a programmer so the thought of trying to get it into shape to play a rule system that I wanted just didn't really make sense for me. It is very good at being a map centric tool, focussing on fog of war and token movement etc. One advantage that users really focus on it that it is free. I've seen discussions about how the program is free and that cost should be the only consideration. Well the problem from my standpoint is that free programs tend to have very little support, or sporadic at best. It is a very handy program that does what it specializes in very well. I used it to create the maps for the Apple Lane side trek adventure. If I used maptools for online gaming, I would want to use something to keep track of combat and for displaying the chat, and something for dice rolls. Because I can get all of those things with FG, that is what I use. Other people might have ideas of what you could use with maptools to make a functional online game.

Sure that sounds like a plan. I can usually get free of the kids sometime after 8:30 pm on week nights as well. I'll have to try the demo to see how exactly it is set up to work. I know they made changes to it recently to make it easier to use. I'll let you know when I have a free night to give it a whirl.

I'm not here to hype or over hype Fantasy Grounds. I'm surprised that if the program has been that much of a headache that you have stuck with it and used it extensively for 6 years. I would have given up on it. I have come from playing mostly Play by post (Pbp) to using FG. You can't get any slower that Pbp ! We also use Skype but mainly for OOC stuff. The IC stuff we still type away. It is usually slower than face to face but with some of the improvements that have been made for the 3.5/4e Dnd rulesets combat record keeping can speed things up. When we have bogged down it is usually tech glitches from Skype or user internet connection issues. Like any type of rp gaming everyone has a different style. Some people prefer to use a VOIP program to speak the IC actions and OOC stuff, just as you would if you were sitting around a table with your friends. Some people prefer to never use a VOIP and want to type in everything. You can do either or some combination of the two. We tend to like to type the IC stuff, just like on a Pbp game. The difference is you get immediate responses, you can see the map and your tokens, you have virtual dice you can roll, and your character sheet is right there on the screen. I tend to GM games right now and use the Pathfinder ruleset. This ruleset has seen some big improvements recently, and lots of automation has been added. I haven't used BRP extensively, so hopefully the problems that have plagued your group aren't related to that ruleset. I'd be interested to hear what the actual specific problems were that ground the games to a halt. If those things were happening to us, we would have quit using it right away.

I haven't ever tried what it is showing at this link, and to be honest IMHO your best best would be to buy/use the BRP ruleset from Chaosium. It will be much easier to make mods to that ruleset. Having said that, the way to get into using FG is to play a game with someone else GMing the game. It doesn't really matter what ruleset they are using. To play in a game only the GM needs to own the ruleset. The necessary files will be downloaded to your computer. I learned how to use FG by playing in a BRP scenario for a number of sessions. The GM then changed the game to Savage Worlds. The GM owned a Ultimate version of the license so we didn't have to buy the program. It didn't take too many sessions before we ( Blackfoot and I) bought into the program ( you might know me as Bostoff from Gringles ). We have been using it on a weekly basis ever since. The way I learned how the program works is by watching the videos located here: http://www.fantasygrounds.com/downloads/ Resources: Top down tokens - http://www.immortalnights.com/tokensite/tokenpacks.html Map making web site: http://pyromancers.com/dungeon-painter-online/ Free maps: http://fantasticmaps.wordpress.com/free-stuff/ http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27578 http://rpgmapshare.com/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=19 I don't really have any FG adventures that I could post. I have mainly been using pdfs that I cut and paste into FG. If you are interested maybe we could set up a time for a demo ( I'm in your time zone ). Possibly using the free demo, or one of the free BRP adventures from Alephtar, a short random encounter, or possibly the Star Wars scenarios posted on this site. I have a GM version of FG2, so either you need to buy a lite copy of FG2 or we could try a DnD 3.5 demo.