The Wicked Dead Brewing Company is proud to announce a new kind of Open Game License for its newest release, Houses of the Blooded.
The Shanri Research Institute (SRI) provides players of the game the opportunity to upload their own independent research on the world of Shanri and its most notorious denizens, the ven. Independent research will be evaluated by the SRI’s members and made a part of “official canon” upon successful review.
With the HotB Graphics Pack (provided to purchasers of the Limited Edition and soon to be on sale for general purchase), members can create their own character sheets, reference sheets and research papers (supplements) for approval by the SRI review team. If approved, any such research papers may be made available for purchase as official supplements to the game.
This is an exciting time for ven research. Join the SRI and help us compile the greatest database of ven knowledge on the internet!
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Here’s the deal.
I’m releasing Houses of the Blooded under an OGL.
(Clarification: Not the OGL.)
You submit a supplement to the SRI. We review it. If we like what we see, we’ll approve it and you can use the Graphics Pack to create your own Houses of the Blooded supplement. You can give your supplement away, you can sell it, whatever you want to do with it. It’s out of my hands.
Both the ven and the game will be open to the public with a forum to discuss their findings and experiments. Also, all the inDesign files and graphics used in the game will be made available to players to fiddle with as they see fit—including using those same files and graphics for building their own supplements.
This is still under construction, but I should be making an official announcement about the SRI at GenCon.