Re: [ogf-d20-l] D20 System Trademark License issues

[Alan Kellogg]

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>>  >> So it would be acceptable to say "To create a character, refer to your
>>  >> Player's Handbook. The material presented below is available as
>options."?
>>  >
>>  >That sentence makes me uneasy.
>>
>>  Could you be more specific?
>
>It would be easy to administer a license that said "you cannot describe the
>process for creating a character".  Allowing the sentence provided above
>means you >can< describe the process for creating a character - the process
>is "consult another book".
>
>This is a fine point (maybe too fine), but I am looking for a way to draft
>the license so that it is crystal clear what is and is not allowed.
>
>Perhaps the license could provide specific boilerplate text that was
>preapproved.  Then the license could say "you cannot describe the process
>for creating a character, but you may include the following: To create a
>character, consult the instructions in the Core Rules."
>
>Ryan

But, it does ask the user to consult a book available from Wizards of 
the Coast, one for which Wizards makes money. Isn't one of the 
purposes of the D20STL to sell more Wizards RPG books?

Alan
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