CWBP - What Happened?!

[waldronate]

Having a subterranean drainage goes a long way to explaining why there is no surface connection. Hooray for karstic terrains! Or a small fleet of purple worms for the D&D types.

[Venardhi]

I know what happened to me, but that is just "real life" demanding more attention than it is worth. I'll be back soon enough, just have a few more things to clear up. I also have a lot more written up for the Wiki, but I realized I'd rather wait til I have it all smoothed out rather than constantly editing between them after the fact.

You'll see me again, and more of Luwath and Orvaelos in the near future.

[Steel General]

Was wondering if you folks have given any thought to the human pantheon(s)? There is nothing in the WIKI (that I could find), and I have seen almost no mention of deities, pantheons, etc.other than the Seldarine for the Elves in any of the posts.

I have a reasonably well-developed pantheon for my campaign world (see the link in my signature), that I would be more than willing to "donate" (for lack of a better term) to the project if you're interested in it. Obviously you'd be free to modify it to whatever suits your needs for the project.

Actually I'd be more than willing to "donate" anything currently on my site that isn't copyrighted for use in the project.

[Redrobes]

I would think that would be most welcome if your able to put a CC license on it.

The reason why I haven't done much in the pantheon area is because I haven't thought much about the people and characters in the area I am doing. As time goes on people will be more and more important until we have some characters, heavy hitters and so on and then the religion and politics, tribes & influences will start to evolve and develop. I guess I am very map-centric and less character driven.

[Steel General]

I would think that would be most welcome if your able to put a CC license on it.

Not quite sure what you mean by putting a "CC" license on it.

I wouldn't think there would be any licensing, copyright, trademark, etc. issues involved in using it.

[Torq]

Great idea Steel General. I think the CWBP would really benefit from the kind donation of a few gods. We are currently a fairly godless group of mappers who, as Redrobes accurately put it, tend to be somewhat map-centric in our approach. Feel free to jump into the wiki and add your stuff. Bear in mind there are three supervising editors who may adapt or edit some of your contributions.

Torq

[Midgardsormr]

CC stands for Creative Commons, and it is a license that allows a certain amount of creative freedom while protecting the original author's right to call the work their own.

Here's a link with info on the standard CC licenses: http://creativecommons.org/license/

The only nod I've made to religion so far is this benediction: "May the Blessed Lady keep her eyes upon you." It was included in a letter by a Groaman Pathmage. I don't have any idea who the Blessed Lady is at this point.

I have an idea stirring for a bit of religious information on the indigenous people of Groam and Tawaren, but it hasn't yet made itself clear to me.

[Redrobes]

Not quite sure what you mean by putting a "CC" license on it.

Sorry, should explain.

As I understand it, stuff in the CWBP is generally (should be ?) creative commons license. Thats a free to obtain license which is a halfway house between full proprietary "All rights reserved" to public domain "No rights reserved". Those ends of the spectrum mean that you cannot copy it without permission unless you tread carefully in the "fair use" clauses of copyright to do whatever you want because effectively nobody owns or cares about it anymore.

The creative commons license can be thought of as "Some rights reserved". Basically, the owner still owns the copyright and all rights but specifically states that people can do certain things with the stuff with some minor restrictions without needing to ask for the permission.

You can get a CC license with several options but the standard licenses cut the options down to a small set thats easily understood. The most common one is the CC attribution, non commercial, share alike type.

This means that your stuff can be copied and redistributed without permission from the owner if you attribute the work to the owner, you dont charge for it and that if you distribute it then it has to be distributed with the same CC attribution, non commercial, share alike license again so that you cant modify how its shared from the way the owner wanted it shared.

Ok, so if you release your work with that license then nobody has to ask you to use it as long as they use it in that way. And by that same token nobody can heavy handed about somebody using their creative commons licensed material if used correctly so there is protection for the people using it too.

It would be better to release stuff public domain but there has been a tendency in recent years for public domain stuff to become appropriated somehow by institutions. By using CC nobody can magically assimilate your work and redistribute it a way that you don't approve of.

The main site for creative commons is www.creativecommons.org which has everything needed to know about it.

[Steel General]

OK, well if you folks feel that is needed I'll look into it.

Feel free to jump into the wiki and add your stuff.

I created an account in the WIKI earlier so I'm good to go in respect to that.

Bear in mind there are three supervising editors who may adapt or edit some of your contributions.

I have no problems with them adapting any or all of the text, if I did I would never have made the offer. I'll need to edit some parts of it out anyway as it is specific to my world, and I don't feel that it would fit. Probably what we'll end up with is just a basic listing of the pantheon with some genral information on each deity.

The only nod I've made to religion so far is this benediction: "May the Blessed Lady keep her eyes upon you." It was included in a letter by a Groaman Pathmage. I don't have any idea who the Blessed Lady is at this point.

Just off the top of my head, I think this could be adapted to either one of two existing godesses in my pantheon.