Comments on: My Thoughts on the Game System License from Wizards of the Coast

By: Ruggs

Ruggs — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:43:55 +0000

What right do they have to take away someone’s trial by jury?

By: LiquidWeird

LiquidWeird — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:48:24 +0000

honestly, I hope this fails and is refused by the 3PPs. The sooner d-20 stops being the big gorilla in the room and actually good systems get a fair shot the better.

D20 is good for one thing and one thing only: Dungeons and Dragons. It is NOT good for other games. Levels are relics of the past and XP should be spent, not hoarded.

Wizards can put whatever they like into a contract, it’s their IP after all, but the 3PPs don’t have to sign it. I hope for the sake of the gaming industry, they don’t.

By: Trask

Trask — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:53:04 +0000

@Thasmodious–As far as I know, the original d20 license did not contain these restrictions.

By: Thasmodious

Thasmodious — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:28:03 +0000

You do know such clauses were in the d20 STL as well? Or are you railing against that one, too?

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:11:30 +0000

Choice of law clauses are at least normal; if you don’t have them, you can’t understand what the terms of the license mean. I can’t speak to the waiver of jury trial.

The evil part, to me, is where they can elect to send you a letter terminating your license and you have to comply and destroy your inventory without any grace period.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:03:20 +0000

Meh, I don’t know too much about this stuff. Reading over a thread at enworld seemed to indicate that folks were generally happy with it.

It’s wotc’s ip, in general gsl will favor them. You don’t like it, make your own stuff.