The Sigil wrote: > Just a few thoughts (mostly a rant) from me on the whole OGC Designation > issue... I skipped around in my reply, so this may be somewhat disjointed, > but hopefully the message gets through...
It comes through loud and clear! :-) > With the noted exceptions of the SRD, the DnDCC/FaNCC's Netbooks (with their > attempts to be 100% OGC), Relics & Rituals (SSS - with its extra license for > using spell names), and several Green Ronin products (Legions of Hell and > the Freeport series, for instance), the designation of OGC in pretty much > every product on the market makes it, for all intents and purposes, unusable > and therefore effectively closed (scream all you want that it is "open" but > for all practical purposes it's worth less than my cat's litter box). This > is my own opinion, and I haven't researched stuff statistically enough to > back it up, but IMO, at least 90% of all products released under the OGL and > d20STL have exactly ZERO *Usable* Open Gaming Content in them. I think Atlas Games is another company (that you don't cite) that does a good job of indicating OGC material; and in the products I've bought, there is a great deal of OGC material that publishers and fans can utilize. > As a general rule of thumb, if it takes you more than 15 words to describe > what is OGC and what is not, you have done a bad job. Attributed to > Einstein is the quote, "if you can't explain it to a reasonably intelligent > six-year old, you don't understand it yourself." Six year olds can figure > out what is in boxes and what is not. They can figure out what is in > chapter four and what is not. They have a much tougher time with, "all > stuff in these sections that is not the proper name of an entity unless it > is derived from the SRD." Keep it simple, stupid. LOL! I agree 100%. :-) > But I would at least like to see some of the professional publishers to take > a couple of steps towards "sharing" some of their stuff... I think that many are. Atlas (as noted above), Necromancer Games, Fiery Dragon (to name just the publishers whose products I've bought) all have a decent amount of easily decipherable OGC. What publishers do you think do a bad job of sharing their material, or don't have enough "usefully noted" OGC? Steven A. Cook Toronto, Ontario, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
