Kenan wrote:
"On page 9 of Necromancer Games' adventure "The
Wizard's Amulet," the section entitled "Starting
combat" contains what I would consider game rules.
Since this section is not marked as OGC is the
adventure in violation of the OGL?"
This adventure was released before the OGL was
finalized and before there was any distinction between
Product Identity, etc. The permission we had at that
time was that we could quote from the combat chapter.
So since my adventure is bound by the rules in effect
when created, it is not in violation.
In addition, you may also note a disclaimer in the
adventure (since no one knew how this all would work)
that any material derived wholly from the d20 srd or
the players handbook is open content. Thus, it is not
in violation becuase the adventure does indicate that
material is open content. So you are wrong when you
say Amulet doesnt mark game rules as open content. We
just didnt do it only with gray boxes. Read the notice
about Open Content at the back of the adventure.
Would we designate things more clearly today? Yes. But
back then we didnt know how all this was going to
shake out.
By the way, the people I heard from at WotC loved it.
Clark
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