>From: Justin Bacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>But according to what Ryan is saying, Pyramid *can't* publish OGL or D20
>content without
>violating the licenses. It's a given. Or, to put it more accurately, the
>actions which Pyramid
>(or any other general interest RPG magazine) would have ot take in order to
>use OGL or D20
>material is exceptionally prohibitive -- in both time, money, and
>practicality -- to make it
>possible.
The only burden to OGL use I see is the Trademark bit, which (as Ryan
suggested) can probably be gotten around by a blanket "can we have
permission to use your trademarks according to the bounds of fair-use in
non-open gaming articles, indcluding review, editorials, etc..."
Individual permission is problematic, and prohibitivly so to boot. It
sounds like a good place to suggest a change to the OGL... but that won't
happen until sometime next year at the earliest. (Hasbro legal, remember?)
DM
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