Re: S&W White Box History?
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 1:24 am
Good information on some of those. Thank you! But Damn it sucks reading them too. The way S&W WB has been treated for so long is aggravating and I'm being polite.
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I do not (indeed no one except Marv, Matt and John of BHP) have access to all the details, however some things were made public or otherwise said 'in the clear' and I recall the gist of all of it.The Wanderer wrote:Novermber 25, 2010. A third printing is published by Brave Halfling and on the same day; a third printing is published by Mythmere Games.
-Note: I think this was around the time when there was some conflict between Brave Halfling, Mythmere and Marv Breig; that caused Brave Halfling to drop WhiteBox and create Delving Deeper and Marv Breig left the game completely. Looking at the second and third printings, it looks like maybe the dust up was caused by the Byline and the Copyright?
And that is basically the end of it. Nothing has changed since November 25, 2010.
The ability to remix and republish, rather than just supporting though supplements and adventures, if I remember correctly. Matt actually posted a thread a while later asking 'well, what have you done with it ?'The Wanderer wrote:I would like to know what leaving it to the fans means? Was that discussed at all back then?
Yes, I wanted to have an errata-free book that could serve as a solid benchmark for riffing off. WB had been aimed at the tinkerers who could homebrew setting and houserules, in contrast to Core -the official game for conventions and published modules. I believed that if we voted to 'give' it to another publisher they'd try to chase sales by expanding it (classes, races, extensive domain rules etc in the rulebook itself rather than as supplements) rather than it being an iconic product.The Wanderer wrote:Also I wonder if folks would have voted differently if they knew what the final printing would be like.
Just out of curiosity, why "The", and why drop "Game"?The Wanderer wrote:I think the updated book, I'll be releasing soon will be the final version that I will do for awhile. Of course I will still do updates to fix errata.
And I confirmed some things today. So I'll go ahead and tell you folks. The name going forward will be:
The White Box: Fantastic Medieval Adventures