After announcing it on Facebook and on Google+ and on Twitter I guess I should announce it here as well: The One Page Dungeon Contest 2013 is available in print!
One Page Dungeon Contest 2013 is available in print
Woohoo, Brett Bernstein has done it again. Thanks!
The CC Share Alike license makes it possible. This is great. Somewhere in the store you can also get the 2012 book, if you’d like that.
The yearly PDFs with all the entries remains freely available. I’m assuming you know what you’re buying if you’re ordering the book. 🙂
The main reason I feel the need to post it here, however, is this angry rant.
Here’s a FAQ compiled by -C of Hack & Slash, the result of a discussion on Google+:
*Isn’t the content of this book available for free?* Yes. The contest is available here.
*Are the authors receiving any of the money from the PDF?* No, but that is due to the terms under which they released their work, the Creative Commons Share-Alike License.
*Is this legal?* Yes. It is allowed under the terms of the license. You have the same option to do this as anyone else.
*Do the contest managers know?* Yes, this work was done with their knowledge and by request.
*Can’t I do this at Lulu?* Yes, the cost for a 116 page full color softcover book will run you 28.96$. Other complexities due to the nature of the contest make printing this book not easy, due to possible font embedding, transparency, and file size issues.
*Is there any new art or content?* No, it is the entries from 2013 along with the winners from 2010 and 2011.
*Is this printed using lightning source or a local printer?* The publisher has no comment on internal logistics.
*Are the authors aware of this project?* Some of them, those that have been contacted [by Brett] were supportive.
*Will this be available in stores?* Yes, retailers can order it through Ingram. Hobby stores that don’t use Ingram will also be able to order through Indie Press Revolution in the next few weeks.
*Why doesn’t Amazon mention any of this?* They take text from various lookups, which don’t always contain the latest information. Changes can be suggested, but that doesn’t mean they will be made.
Creative Commons Share-Alike License
Brett also said: “I make enough per book at amazon just to cover printing costs. I did this as a service for the RPG hobby, so people who do not have access to printing services could get this at a reasonable price.” (in the comments of the same Google+ thread)
As for me personally, the CC license is *fundamental*. I absolutely want people to copy and distribute the resulting dungeons. I want people to be able to host them on their websites even if they (or Google) are making money off of it. I want people to be able to print them even if they (or Lulu) are making money off of it. As far as I am concerned, creating One Page Dungeons for everybody to use and spread *as they see fit* and *without having to ask for a permission* is the entire point of the contest. Not everybody needs to share this point of view, of course, but that’s why I run this contest in particular.
If you’re an author, and you still feel disappointed or hoodwinked... I don’t know what to say. I honestly felt that it was obvious enough. Here’s how the instructions to the One Page Dungeon Contest 2013 start:
*Submissions*: Here’s how to submit your entry.
Create a One Page Dungeon.Submitting a dungeon to the contest releases it under the Creative Common Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license with credit to the contest participant.The submission must have a *name*, an *author*, and a *link to the license* (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
Creative Common Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
On the One Page Dungeon there is another section that doesn’t mince words:
*License*: The PDF doesn’t need an actual clickable link to the Creative Common Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. The URL just has to be readable when printed so that people can look it up if they need to. The license basically says that anybody can copy, change, and distribute your submission, as long as other people can take the new copy and do the same, and as long as they list all the contributing authors. As the author you can distribute copies using a different license, but you cannot revoke the Creative Commons license. Thus you cannot sell “exclusive rights” to somebody else at a later date. See the license itself for more information. 🙂
Creative Common Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
“The license basically says that anybody can copy, change, and distribute your submission, as long as other people can take the new copy and do the same, and as long as they list all the contributing authors.” It seems pretty straight forward to me. If you have a suggestion regarding the wording, feel free to leave a comment or contact me directly.
I remember reading Justin Alexander’s One-Page Rip-Off post in 2010 where he said anybody could upload the free PDF to Lulu and buy their own copy. Please do it! You are free to do it. That’s what’s so great about it. There is no need to ask. Unfortunately, nobody stepped forward in 2010 and 2011 to actually do it. Or perhaps they did it and never offered it to anybody else. In 2012, Brett stepped forward and actually made it happen: The 1PDC in print, for those of us who’d like to have it without feeling like doing it ourselves. And he did it again in 2013. Thanks! 🙂
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Thank you, Alex, for addressing the issues I asked about in my “angry rant”.
I think contest entrants need to know that the license allows someone to SELL their work without notification or payment to the original creator. You don’t make that clear in any of the material for the contest, although the license link itself does indicate that others may make commercial use of the material. “anybody can copy, change, and distribute,” is not the same as “anybody can copy, change, distribute, or sell”.
Could you please make that clear for next year’s entrants?
– mwschmeer 2013-10-21 13:13 UTC
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As someone without a Google+ account, I can’t access the discussion thread you link to where these issues are discussed. Could someone please post the contents of that thread somewhere?
– mwschmeer 2013-10-21 13:27 UTC
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Contact -C.
– Alex Schroeder 2013-10-21 13:41 UTC