On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Ryan S. Dancey wrote:
>If someone wants to take the time to extract the uncopyrightable rules of
>D&D and publish them under a separate license, it wouldn't bug me. However,
But the question was would the foundation link to it and be a
"clearinghouse for information" about such a project?
>such a document isn't going to have the spells, monsters, magic items, or
>the same descriptions of elves, dwarves, gnomes and halflings that D&D does.
Such a document could have original or public domain sourced spells,
monsters, magic items, or descriptions of races. I guess the first
step would be to just strictly do mechanics. Then start adding the
gaming "lego blocks" with a "source history" for each piece. If
WotC or any other game company has a problem with some piece, one
can change it, drop it or wave the "source history."
Another source for some of these lego blocks might be to work with
some existing open gaming projects.
>In other words, if you want to write the Palladium Fantasy Role Playing Game
>again, there's nothing anyone can really do to stop you...
There is no intent to be in your face or antagonistic. I just want
to explore some alternatives and hopefully work with the OGF community.
As far as I see, the intention is still for the foundation to be
inclusive of a wide variety of open gaming projects.
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