Newsgroup: it.hobby.giochi.gdr.dnd
Titolo: QUARTA edizione 4th - OGL e necromancer games

di come la necromancer games progetta di sfruttare la ogl, facendo
uscire un monster manual e un players handbook con tutte le cose che
la Wizards non metterà nei primi manuali (necromanti, gnomi,
mezz'orchi, allineamento ecc ecc)
di come ha scommesso che sarebbe successo e ha commissionato il lavoro
a chi già aveva accesso al materiale di playtest anche se lui non
poteva vedere i risultati....
4E - Necro is IN! Planned Products
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WotC just had a conference call with the publishers yesterday and have
posted their OGL and SRD plans on their site today, as most of you
know. I wanted to let everyone know that Necromancer Games is IN! in
conjunction with Paizo. We will have products for GenCon or shortly
thereafter.
Products include:
1. Tome of Horrors 4E: if WotC leaves monsters out of the offial
rules, we will put them back in (cant say which ones cause we dont
have the rules yet). Plus all the classics from the original Tome that
you want in your 4E game will be back.
2. Advanced Player's Guide: To be designed in part by industry insider
Ari Marmell, if they left classes and races out, we put them back in
(Of course, we can't say if bards or druids or barbarians or gnomes or
half-orc are or arent in 4th edition, but we know some stuff has been
cut, and whatever is missing we will create for you with work by
respected designer Ari Marmell.)
3. Tegel Manor. A 4E version of the 1E Judges Guild classic.
4. Winter's Tomb. A free, downloadable PDF along the lines of Wizard's
Amulet, Necro's Ennie-winning introductory adventure, that will help
jump start your 4E campaign.
Winter's Tomb will be available at the first day 4E products can be
released. Tome 4E should be available at GenCon with the Advanced
Player's Guide. Tegel is also targeted for GenCon. Dates could slip
pending WotC's delivery of the design kits.
We have been planning this stuff for months, privately.
You trusted us to help put the 1E back into 3E, now we are doing the
same for 4E!
Viva Necro!
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Originally Posted by Sitara
Hmm...
1) How exactly didi Ari marmell design the stuff if he does not have
the rules yet? (since the rules have yet to be released even to
freelancers who pay the $5000)
2)I really think you have jumped the gun on this; not due ot the
gamble you took but due to posting your players guide here. I think it
would be prudent to wait abit and read the OGl before announcing
anywhere else.
3)I seriously doubt WOTC will alow anyone to fill the gap for
barbarian/druid et al. Especially since the Ogl now requires the PHB
even for 3rd party products; I think designing new classes might be
not as..open as before.
4)Look forward to the frer adventure.  I enjoyed the wizards amulet,
even though I am not really in krawls at all; perhaps this time it
will be a Warlock who will have need of ocmpanions and will be plagued
by a haggidy old wizard seeking to steal his 'new' type of magic.
Regards and best of luck with your company and 4E!
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1. Select freelancers have had the rules for some months now. I just
decided to contact one and say: I know you cant tell me what you are
doing, but here is what I want you to do, can you do it? He said
"yes."
2. No need to wait. Its my plan, if I cant do it then I cant do it.
And it wont be my fault if I cant. I want people who are thinking
about 4E and making decisions to know that we will help them fill gaps
and we will help bring 1E themes and ideas to 4E. I want them to know
that right away. If something ties my hands, so be it. But people need
to know that Necro is out there bringing classic gaming and classic
gaming options to 4E.
3. We'll see. You might be right. But I have a funny feeling that WotC
knows when the official version comes out, people will use that. I
dont think wotc is worried about little ol' me. But I am convinced
that they know that I can get a certain message out to our established
fans who trust us to deliver content.
4. You know, I got literally hundreds of emails from people saying "we
werent that excited about 3e but we decided to check it out when we
downloaded Wizard's Amulet." WotC knows Necro can do that for 4E too.
And our plan for Winter's Tomb is to highlight some of the new stuff
from 4E. Just like Corian in WA was a sorcerer (highlighting a new
class), Winter's Tomb will have similar highlights of some of the
strengths of the new rules--terrain as part of encounters, new fun
monsters, plus all of that old school Necro goodness!

In pratica vorrebbero battere la WotC sul tempo anticipando materiale "non 
ufficiale" (gnomi, classi, mostri ecc.) che sarà pubblicato in seguito e 
riadattare le regole che saranno eliminate (se le eliminano un motivo ci 
sarà pure)? Mi sembra una scelta alquanto strna... soprattutto se si 
sganciano 5000 verdoni per farlo (la WotC ci metterà mezzo secondo a 
dichiarare che il loro gnomo non è ufficiale e che è "sbagliato")
salut
-- 
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l'Iran ha chiesto l'intervento dell'Onu contro gli Stati Uniti perché
loro hanno Chuck Norris 

 a dichiarare che il loro gnomo non è ufficiale e che è "sbagliato")
Da quel che ho capito la Necromancer ha come scopo ultimo quello di 
reimplementare la prima edizione di D&D con le regole della quarta come 
(dice lui) hanno gia` fatto con la terza.
Una nicchia per gli affezionati di OD&D, insomma.
Bye.

 Una nicchia per gli affezionati di OD&D, insomma.
Ho già presente il tono delle avventure della Necromancer Games... ma 
produrre classi e razze che vedremo comunque per mano della WotC?
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