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It's also available right here at paizo.com.
However, I've reminded the publisher that section 7 of the OGL specifically forbids stating compatibility with the Pathfinder RPG or any other such game ("You agree not to indicate compatibility or coadaptability with any Trademark or Registered Trademark in conjunction with a work containing Open Game Content except as expressly licensed in another, independent Agreement with the owner of such Trademark or Registered Trademark.")
I also let him know that we're working on a Pathfinder RPG Compatibility license, but it's not done yet, and it will require you to actually use the Pathfinder RPG rules where appropriate, not just tout the backwards compatibility inherent in the system.
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It's also available right here at paizo.com.
I looked for it here first...my search skills must be getting rusty...
However, I've reminded the publisher that section 7 of the OGL specifically forbids stating compatibility with the Pathfinder RPG or any other such game ("You agree not to indicate compatibility or coadaptability with any Trademark or Registered Trademark in conjunction with a work containing Open Game Content except as expressly licensed in another, independent Agreement with the owner of such Trademark or Registered Trademark.")
I also let him know that we're working on a Pathfinder RPG Compatibility license, but it's not done yet, and it will require you to actually use the Pathfinder RPG rules where appropriate, not just tout the backwards compatibility inherent in the system.
DOH! I understand your position but I still think it's cool that some of my favorite publishers are looking your way!
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It's also available right here at paizo.com.
Just an FYI, The preview link isn't working.
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It's also available right here at paizo.com.Just an FYI, The preview link isn't working.
I had no problem. This book is just odd. Very creative, but an odd choice of application of the OGL. Do they have a book of VG Monsters?
I just got an email about The Le's new PDF over on RPGNow.com. In the description he says:
This Awesome book contains 25 incredible magical items from your favorite video games, and is completely compatible with 3e and Pathfinder!
Thank you for all your comments. Paizo did indeed remind me about the OGL thingee. I have to admit - I have been struggling a bit on the whole ogl/3e/d20/4e/gsl issues when it comes to marketing and overall direction for my company. I am accustomed to marketing products with the d20 logo, so this is all new to me.
Regardless, I finally got everything straightened out, and fully plan on supporting Pathfinder, its logo, and the LPJ OGL Logo for all future pathfinder/3.5e products.
Sales of Unorthodox Wizards (coming soon to Paizo) and Video Game Magic Items have been phenomenal, which has convinced me to stick with 3.5e for the foreseeable future. Official press release coming soon concerning these decisions.
As for Video Game Magic Items, the demo itself being hosted by Paizo, so I will dig around to see what the problems are. The content itself is just good fun -- Shane O'Connor did a bang up job on the writing and Herb McGihon put together some great internal images (and did a superb cover). I consider myself quite the video game player, but Shane pulled out stuff that I have never even heard of.
Video Game Magic Items is the first book I have published through Paizo, and I fully intend to bring more books here. I have been very happy with the response so far, and hope this is the beginning of a long future for The Le Games at Paizo.
Video Game Monsters you say? Sounds promising. I'll look into it...
-The Le (pronounced Tay Lee)
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I just got an email about The Le's new PDF over on RPGNow.com. In the description he says:
This Awesome book contains 25 incredible magical items from your favorite video games, and is completely compatible with 3e and Pathfinder!Thank you for all your comments. Paizo did indeed remind me about the OGL thingee. I have to admit - I have been struggling a bit on the whole ogl/3e/d20/4e/gsl issues when it comes to marketing and overall direction for my company. I am accustomed to marketing products with the d20 logo, so this is all new to me.
Regardless, I finally got everything straightened out, and fully plan on supporting Pathfinder, its logo, and the LPJ OGL Logo for all future pathfinder/3.5e products.
Sales of Unorthodox Wizards (coming soon to Paizo) and Video Game Magic Items have been phenomenal, which has convinced me to stick with 3.5e for the foreseeable future. Official press release coming soon concerning these decisions.
As for Video Game Magic Items, the demo itself being hosted by Paizo, so I will dig around to see what the problems are. The content itself is just good fun -- Shane O'Connor did a bang up job on the writing and Herb McGihon put together some great internal images (and did a superb cover). I consider myself quite the video game player, but Shane pulled out stuff that I have never even heard of.
Video Game Magic Items is the first book I have published through Paizo, and I fully intend to bring more books here. I have been very happy with the response so far, and hope this is the beginning of a long future for The Le Games at Paizo.
Video Game Monsters you say? Sounds promising. I'll look into it...
-The Le (pronounced Tay Lee)
Video Game Monsters would be awesome, and based on the success of the two books maybe we could expect to see a campaign setting similar to that old show in the 80s that had like all the nintendo games mushed together, what was it called?
Video Game Monsters you say? Sounds promising. I'll look into it...
Now THAT is a very COOL idea!!!! Hurry up and get working on that!
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Video Game Monsters would be awesome, and based on the success of the two books maybe we could expect to see a campaign setting similar to that old show in the 80s that had like all the nintendo games mushed together, what was it called?Captain N: The Game Master
That'd be a great setting for nostalgia's sake in fact the next adventure set I work on will probably be set in it
Video Game Monsters you say? Sounds promising. I'll look into it...Now THAT is a very COOL idea!!!! Hurry up and get working on that!
I've already talked to the author, and he is interested. I just have to wait for his plate to clear up or find a new author. I suppose I could start writing it myself and find an editor to clean up after me.
Considering all the Diablo II that I've been playing lately, I bet I could make a butt-kicking Mephisto, Baal, and Wirt the Pegleg Boy.
Hrmm...
-The Le
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Chief Technical Officer
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It's also available right here at paizo.com.Just an FYI, The preview link isn't working.
That was my mistake—I left out one of the servers when I put the file up. It's fixed now.
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Chief Technical Officer
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It's also available right here at paizo.com.I looked for it here first...my search skills must be getting rusty...
It wasn't you—I put the PDF up after you posted.
Whoa! This book looks awesome! I'm definitely checking this out!
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Video Game Monsters you say? Sounds promising. I'll look into it...Now THAT is a very COOL idea!!!! Hurry up and get working on that!
You too! This sort thing seems like it'd be LPJ's speed, and I highly doubt you guys would pick the same monsters.
Now what would I pick if I were any good at monster design...
-Deathclaws (Fallout series)
-Fetishes (Diablo II)
-Chocobos (Final Fantasy)
-Vortigaunts (Half-life 2)
-Antlions (Half-life 2)
-Whatever those things that call you "maggot" at the beginning of Dungeon Siege II are called
-Crepitus (Jagged Alliance II)
-The ceiling monsters from Half-Life 2
-Headcrabs (Half-Life 2)
-Hounds of Anubis (Titan Quest)
-Ghols (Myth series)
-Myrkriddia (Myth series)
-Soulless (Myth series)
-Wights (Myth series) - a far cry from standard D&D wights
-Sand Wraith template (Prince of Persia: Warrior Within)
-Any of the monsters from Clive Barker's Undying
-Skeleton Mages (Diablo II)
-Kites (Arcanum)
-Sand Wraiths (Titan Quest)
-The Rusalka (Quest for Glory IV)
-Fledder (The Witcher)
-The weird monsters from Fallout II (I remember a floating pancakey thing and a multilegged thing with a humanoid torso)
And then there's the potential NPCs from games:
Manannan (King's Quest III)
Deckard Kaine (Diablo I, II, and it looks like III)
Tyrael (Diablo II)
Virgil (Arcanum)
Stringy Pete (Arcanum)
Imhotep (Titan Quest) - The whole promethean order's a really cool idea
Aria Goodhalo and Jasper Wormsworth (Afterlife)
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Oh man, if I started listing off videogame monsters I would want stats for I'd be here all week. The entire Castlevania bestiary for starters. And the Las Plagas family of aberrations.
And that thrice-damned yeti from SkiFree!
Aria Goodhalo and Jasper Wormsworth (Afterlife)
Yes.
And the King of All Cosmos.