Okay, White Wolf has just started a new program for WoD called the Storyteller's Vault where fans can submit their own content (fiction, adventure modules, campaign settings, supplements) to White Wolf to be published and you can even set your own price on the products and get paid for them (White Wolf still owns the property and keeps a 50% cut).
The best part is that the material in the Storyteller's Vault is officially non-canon, so you don't have to follow the metaplot and you can publish for all four editions of Vampire (1st, 2nd, Revised, V20). Right now it's just Vampire: The Masquerade but they have announced they will do material for Dark Ages, Mind's Eye Theatre, and the other gamelines such as Werewolf and Mage in the future.
Link below.....
http://www.storytellersvault.com/
Just be aware that the license for anything you publish for this requires that you give up all right to publish it anywhere else including DERIVATIVE works. So if you have a cool vampire adventure and redress it to work with WoD and publish it, you can't publish it using D&D 5th edition without any WoD.
Now to be fair WoD is as much setting as system. This is a bigger issue with Traveller, Cortex, and Cypher where publishing original settings for those systems is part of the marketing for those 3PP programs.
To be clear I consider this to be fair when it is comes the World of Darkness setting. Their playground their rules and all that. The rule I would use is that if the material only work or make sense with the World of Darkness then go ahead and publish. This license is more than far for another company's setting IP. Otherwise don't it is a terrible deal for something original.
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Quote from: estar;982285Just be aware that the license for anything you publish for this requires that you give up all right to publish it anywhere else including DERIVATIVE works. So if you have a cool vampire adventure and redress it to work with WoD and publish it, you can't publish it using D&D 5th edition without any WoD.
Now to be fair WoD is as much setting as system. This is a bigger issue with Traveller, Cortex, and Cypher where publishing original settings for those systems is part of the marketing for those 3PP programs.
To be clear I consider this to be fair when it is comes the World of Darkness setting. Their playground their rules and all that. The rule I would use is that if the material only work or make sense with the World of Darkness then go ahead and publish. This license is more than far for another company's setting IP. Otherwise don't it is a terrible deal for something original.
The Relevant sections of the license
Don't worry, I'm aware of all that and I read the terms of agreement first thing.
I'm looking forward to what comes of this. There has been some grumbling from Chronicles of Darkness fans, although I do feel that the new games will very much be attempting to consolidate the disparate lines anyway, so in five years time or so maybe the CoD won't really that big an issue. But yes, I agree that the WoD line is more of a setting concept than a ruleset.