robertsconley

Thanks for the suggestion, I emailed Jason.

This exciting news and thanks. However as the Hero System is a generic system as well has having specific setting information. I respectfully ask that the licence be patterned off of the Genesys Foundry not the DM's Guild. The DM's Guild style license restricts the work from being published anywhere else other than the CCP program on DriveThruRPG. However it also restrict the use of derivative works. This restriction is reasonable when the use of original setting material is used, like Forgotten, or Traveller's Third Imperium, the World of Darkness, and of course the Champions Universe. The non derivative clause not reasonable when it comes to content that is original except for it use of a system. As it precludes an author from using their own original content elsewhere using a different system. For example I have written the Scourge of the Demon Wolf an adventure using the Swords & Wizardry rules. Due to my familiarity and fondness for the Hero System, I would be interested in converting into something usable with Fantasy Hero. However the DM's Guild style license preclude me from doing that. Nor would I want to lock up everything about the setting that Scourge of the Demon Wolf uses inside Hall of Champions. Luckily there is a CCP program that has not only a license but a situation similar to that of Hero Games. Fantasy Flight's Genesys Foundry. The same issue was raised by the Genesys when the Foundry was setup and Fantasy Flight did the work to come up with a second version of the license that allowed author to publish derivative works of their original content elsewhere. As well as bring in existing content and re-purpose it for Genesys. The Genesys Foundry also offers several Fantasy Flight settings. An example that had a negative outcome was The Travaller Aid Society for Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition. A small but thriving third party community grew around Mongoose Traveller 1st edition using the OGL license and material that was provided. These publishers focused on their own original science fiction settings as the Third Imperium was not part of the OGL material provided. They were excited about making the switch to TAS despite the lose of the OGL however when various publishers realized the issues that no derivatives clause caused they aborted their plans and stuck with open content of Mongoose Traveller 1st edition. Given the history of the rise and fall of various Traveller editions, none of them was willing to put their original material under such a restriction. I hope Hall of Champions does well, I think by allowing derivative works it will be far more appeal for people to put their products within the program. I know I would be interested. Rob Conley Bat in the Attic Games.