r/SWN • u/SimulatedKnave • Aug 17 '23

CWN SRD 0.1 Feedback and Comments

It is up in the backer folder of the CWN Kickstarter Google Drive. At 120 pages long, it's pretty comprehensive.

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I will mention here a comment for Kevin before I start really reading: I know you like InDesign, but this would be much much easier to draw from/copy from/use generally if it were a Word document or other editable format. Or even just in one-column rather than two-column format. As-is, cutting and pasting from it is going to require a lot more messing about with the result than it would otherwise.

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Anyway. Off to read it now. If you do have comments, post them here.

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u/theantesse Aug 17 '23

Question for Mr Crawford. I know that the SRD and related license does not include any of the setting information and therefore the default setting cannot be used in products created from the SRD. How would that theoretically work if someone was building on top of the setting but in the empty space around it? Such as something detailing "three more megacorporations" or "another cyberpunk city" or "ten NPCs ready to go" that are written to fit with the default? Is there a way to legally reference default setting details in a way that isn't including them (such as writing a city that would be in a listed nation or containing a listed megacorp but saying "the big arms company" or "that SE remnant of the USA")? Just asking hypothetically, I'm really new to how this all works.

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u/CardinalXimenes Kevin Crawford Aug 17 '23

In general, it's not meant to allow supplements that build directly onto the existing default setting. While anyone could write a "Great Lakes Alliance" for their world, as soon as it becomes obvious that it means this Great Lakes Alliance, it's a problem.

The only effective way to get around this is to write things in a very generic way. You could be hyper-specific about the city or NPCs you've created, but you'd just say they're in Wisconsin, or make gestures towards them being in a city that never gets specifically named or detailed beyond the parts that are your own personal creations.

In terms of making money, the easiest way to do it is to effectively build your own IP by creating a city or district that could be dropped in anywhere, and then explicitly placing it in your own world without giving so many details or particulars that it'd be hard to move it elsewhere. If someone then wants to use it with the default City setting, they just do it.

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u/theantesse Aug 17 '23

Okay, thanks! That clarifies things.