Just one note here, Mr. Weick. (Other that this, thanks to you (and Clark!)
for being upfront with your buisness viewpoint.)
>From: "Steve Wieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>In regards to 2), if WOTC is keeping Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms PI, why
>on earth shouldn't we be entitled to keep all elements of Scarred Lands as
>PI?
"Because WotC developed the ruleset, and thus can circumvent the OGL."
There will almost certainly be parts in WotC's books that would be OGC if
they weren't proprietary... say, "the spellfire template" or somesuch. But
becasue WotC wrote the D20SRD and its original works, they can do that.
As I see things, if someone else wrote a "new forgotten realms," their
"spellfire" template would be game rules, and should be open content.
Ethically, a game producer should include enough non-game rules with any New
Thing in open gaming to make it useable by someone else without violating
the OGL. I haven't read the CC, but at least some parts of "ecology" would
be necessary to do this, in my opinion.
Other than this (having enough to support the New Thing you released under
the OGL), there's no reason at all that you shouldn't have all of Shattered
Lands as exclusive PI.
Doug Meerschaert
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