Questions regarding the mandatory restrictions of the d20 license. This relates to developing alternate systems/settings using the d20 license. Core Rulebook I would still be required, but other details related to character creation/level advancement might be modified.
Here's the text for those watching at home: Mandatory Restrictions: No Covered Product may contain rules or instructions of any kind that:  Describe a process for Creating a Character  Describe a process for Applying the Effects of Experience to a Character Definition of Character Creation: Character creation means a description of the process of assigning initial scores to abilities, selecting a race, selecting a starting class, assigning initial skill points, selecting initial feats, and picking an initial alignment. Character creation does not include creating or modifying the description of an ability score, a race, a class, a skill or a feat. <Question> Does this refer to the generalities of choosing race, class, etc, or does this restrict any d20 product from adding/changing that initial effort? Does a product (like Darwin's World) that adds a new category to character creation (Background) violate the d20 license, since it has changed the character creation process? On the opposite side, does a product that does not use alignment for character generation violate the d20 license? Definition of Applying the effects of Experience to a Character: Applying the effects of Experience to a Character means a description of the process for comparing the accumulated experience point total of a character to a chart to determine if the character's level should be incremented. If the experience level of a character exceeds threshold values as defined by the chart, the character is modified in a specified fashion. Specifically, Applying the effects of Experience to a Character means incrementing the character level of a character by incrementing a class level by one rank, or by adding a new class at first level, and describing how to allocate new skill points, select new feats, or gain new class-level linked abilities. Applying the effects of Experience to a Character does not include creating or modifying an experience point chart, defining a new class (including describing what benefits that class provides at each level). <Question> If level-based abilities were added to a race (say, granting a new feat every 4th level level), would this violate the d20 license? Is the ability score increase every 4th level also considered part of 'applying the effects of experience to a character'? Is the feat acquisition, skill points and ability score increase all considered mandatory for a d20 product? Thanks in advance, Chad Brunner __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
