At 12:00 PM 3/31/2001 -0800, Neal Rogers
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I've noticed that some D20 products on the market
are
>>putting all the creature names in Closed Content,
>>while the creature stats are in Open Content. I'm
>>not clear on the reason behind this.
Rogers Cadenhead replied:
>This was discussed a few months ago on the list with
>White Wolf and Sword
>and Sorcery Studios, which has done this in some D20
>products. Does anyone
>know if there is a searchable archive of this list
>available?
Yes, there is.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html
Based on your post, I tried some search criteria
combinations that I hadn't used before, and I think I
found the thread in question. Thanks for the hint.
Putting something in Closed Content means that you
intend to control its use by other developers. Got
that. With regard to a campaign world, it makes sense
to me that a game company might want to protect the
names of countries, major NPCs, deities, and such.
Doing this with creature names and other things that
are much more connected with the mechanics than the
setting is a little harder for me to see as
reasonable, however. The D20 license says that any
D20 product must have 5% Open Content. Dumping in a
bunch of stat blocks that are useless to another
developer is a way to achieve this 5% without giving
anything up, I guess?
Neal
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