So, White Wolf have caused a bit of a stir by making anyone who wants to charge money for a game (even just to cover costs) join the Camarilla to do so. Plus any players that play more than once have to join the organisation.
Seperate games sure. People don't have to play inside the official chronicle, nor do they have to use the reporting systems, etc.
There are a number of things in the license that have intrigued me quite a bit and have put some cogs into serious gear. Could someone please send me the license agreement and any other related information (or post a link to somewhere I can reda it online). I was involved with the original licenses under both the old Board of Directors and also with the White Wolf Steering Committee when I was the International Development Officer so will probably recognise most of the basics but would like to see the current version anyway.
Many thanks.
Seperate games sure. People don't have to play inside the official chronicle, nor do they have to use the reporting systems, etc.
There are a number of things in the license that have intrigued me quite a bit and have put some cogs into serious gear. Could someone please send me the license agreement and any other related information (or post a link to somewhere I can reda it online). I was involved with the original licenses under both the old Board of Directors and also with the White Wolf Steering Committee when I was the International Development Officer so will probably recognise most of the basics but would like to see the current version anyway.
Many thanks.
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I mean that I've just checked the Requiem, Forsaken, World of Darkness & the old Orpheus game books - and effectively it's the same blurb in each. Usual constraints on copyright but nothing else.
At no point does it say you can only play this game if "insert demand here" or "by virtue of buying this book you agree to the following" - therefore (IMHO) they'd have a hard time even getting court time (lawyers are a different case - they get paid {win or lose} by the hour) so, with this in mind, how can WW hope to impose, retrospectively, "conditions of fair usage" on a publicly available product. Even more insane if they try it with OWOD - a product they admit that they are NO longer supporting !!!! [A puzzled lagomorph twitches ears in confusion]
Very weird ! Shades of TSR trying to copywright the word "Nazi" ????
So, PR disaster and unleashing Achilli the Asshat on the forums, as usual, not the best plan.
And there I was forgetting why I don't read them.
WW should be shot.
this one also links in:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/davedevil/237727.html
The big problem is that their published material doesn't contain this agreement, so they're trying to add it after the fact.
Therefore I wonder what would happen if you were to run a WW game, charge people - but follow the terms of the license, and then charge WW after the fact for the free advertising you've just done for their company.