So whats the blog for now?

It would be easy to say that the blog has served its purpose now, we are all together on the forum a great step forward and for the purpose of of discussing ideas it is indeed redundant.

But the Blog does something else. Posts on the blog appear on the blogs of most followers so posting news here will regularly advertise the movement to the large amounts of passing viewers, we only need one or two to click the link to steadily grow the community. After all any people that come to this blog via our blogs are probably already interested in oldhammer.

To this end I think the following should happen:

Some permanent blog pages:

What is old hammer.

For the future an intro to BLOOD.

Other beginners resources.

Pretty this thing up, if it's one of the shop windows it ought to look good.

BLOOD world?

So orlygg has suggested working on the background for any retro clone we may come up with.

Personally I think his ideas sound great, I'd be well up for helping flesh them out, if he wants help that is. But, I think the core BLOOD rules should be background-less. There should be no official BLOOD world, rather it would be great to see a multitude of different BLOOD worlds. Every ones BLOOD after all is subtly different but we all need it..

The possibility could exist  to have a multitude of fan settings and or commercially available world settings, assuming of course there are a multitude of people asking for the stuff.

So rather than discuss this topic under thoughts on BLOOD rules or BLOOD law I thought it needed its own space.

What are your thoughts on having an official BLOOD world? Yes, no, sort of but?

BLOOD WAR: In law there is only battle.

So what's the legal standing of our retro-clone project? and what of our contributions to this blog?

Developing a project like BLOOD WAR ( Bucket Loads of Old Dice WAR - a retro-clone of Warhammer) is a minefield of misunderstandings and potential conflict.

Do we, as the authors want to financially gain from our hard work?
Do we want other people to be able to financially gain from our hard work?

I don't know the answers, but unless we're all clear on where we stand with it then there will be trouble ahead.

Bruno suggested this Creative Commons license:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

I think it's the right way forward and I hope all contributing editors / authors can agree to it as a legal framework, we can stick the icon on the blog, forget about it and get on with the gaming!


But if anyone reading that license has any questions, queries or concerns then drop a comment. I've no intention of trying to railroad this through.

I should also note that I have had personal correspondence suggesting the OGL might be a good framework so check-out OSRIC and it's license to give an idea of how that works too.

BTW, none of this provides us with legal protection against claims of infringement of other companies copyrights, it's just about making it clear what people can do with the things we post here.

BTW II, The OLDHAMMER: In Battle There Is No Law banner / logo is released under  CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 which basically means you can use and share it freely, but not modify or do anything commercial with it. 

News: Oldhammer makes it onto TMP.

A nice bat rep by Blacksmith on his Javier at War Blog has also been posted on TMP. TMP has to be the biggest outreach tool for Oldhammer evangelizing so many thanks Blacksmith.

Is it time we all started posting on our favorite forums with Oldhammer in the title? I have seen a bit of it going on I should endeavor to catalog the first appearances!

T-shirt

Zhu has made available some spiffing T-Shirt designs with his Oldhammer logo on.