Using Class Warfare to make new classes for commercial / community release: cheesy, or otherwise? What do you think?

Using Class Warfare to make new classes for commercial / community release: cheesy, or otherwise? What do you think?

Using Class Warfare to make new classes for commercial / community release: cheesy, or otherwise? What do you think?

5 thoughts on “Using Class Warfare to make new classes for commercial / community release: cheesy, or otherwise? What do you think?”

  1. Unless you’re literally just copying and pasting three specialties and calling it done, I wouldn’t call it cheesy. Even at that, a little bit of novel thematic interpretation on the designer end can help a bit of copypasta turn into something fresh, in an “oh hey, never looked at those specialties in that light before” kind of a way.

    A minimal amount of novel mechanics is a prerequisite for me to consider it a legit commercial offering, but using CW as a starting point seems perfectly fine.

    Regardless, the advice in the chapter on how to make a class (having your three thematic branches of abilities, etc.) and using it to eyeball what your load, damage, hp and whatnot should be are both pretty good backbones, even if you never touch the specialties themselves.

  2. Building stuff compatible with Class Warfare seems cool.  Borrowing individual moves, slightly less cool — you’d have to do more work to make sure you’ve genuinely added value, and copying anything verbatim is questionable at best, and plagiarism at worst.  If you’re unsure, you could just ask +Johnstone Metzger, who has been known to post here.

  3. It’s not plagiarism if you give proper attribution. All of Class Warfare is CC Attribution Share-Alike; you’re explicitly allowed to remix, modify and copy wholesale so long as you give credit and use the same license. CW itself uses text from a lot of other places, recall.

    It would be a very poor class indeed that added nothing new, however.

  4. Ah.  I wasn’t sure of the license — if it’s CC-BY-SA then yes, all you have to do is give proper credit and copy the license terms.  (Without the CC license, plain copyright does not allow quoting beyond fair use, whether you give attribution or not.)

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