This was explained to me once by a store owner who had problems with just
this issue:
When you GM for money, you have to advertize those services. During that
process, you have to use the trademarks of the games you will run. At that
point you are violating trademark law and "diluting" the trademark of the
game company.
(Just what I was told ...)
Faust
>From: "Doug Meerschaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Open_Gaming] OGL/D20L based 'GM-For-Hire' Service Question
>Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 12:41:44 EDT
>
>>From: Stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>>Any Ideas on this?, any reasons why I could not run a
>>GM-For-Hire service using the PHB?
>
>Considering that there's no "you can't GM for money" clause in any RPG I've
>ever seen, I have to say "no."
>
>Charging cash for GMing is no different than collecting "dues" from your
>players. (Although in my XP it's unpopular.)
>
>
>DM
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