OGC is wonderful, it allows us to share game rules and other stuff with the people we love. Namely game designers from places like Atlanta and Las Vegas. It also builds a community, a group of reasonable human beings not offended by the use of "their" rules in other peoples products. You might not get payed for OGC, but you get credit, and isn't credit just as good as money in the bank? That is of course unless the interest rate is unreasonable, but I digress.
OGC is good, because it makes us pay attention to the teeming posts filling up our deleted items bin in Outlook express. It also enables us to develop settings and products without having to re-invent or reverse engineer rules. The D20 stl is like a giant pair of handcuffs that only open when you say the magic word "Comply" but OGC is solid gold. Actually it's also solid credit, which is like saying I have solid gold, but I've never actually recieved it. To designate OGC, think of a way to make it look different from non OGC material. For rules use tag fonts or wingdings for instance, or perhaps have your 12th grade visual designer and layout person emboss, drop shadow, and bold stroke all of your OGC. That will definitely make it stand out. That way there is no confusion. OGC should only be rules, but maybe it should also be art, since art is content too,and can be pertinent to a game. Maybe we should make OGC cover miniatures as well, since they can be game content. What about the OGC designation for player DNA? Can we use my GM genomes as OGC in a sick gene splicing expirment with GURPS Atomic Horror and D20 Deadlands? Do you see my point? If you want other people to do the same thing as you when dealing with OGC, come up with a smart way of doing it, then publish it that way. People like to steal good ideas, I mean, they like to use them in the same format to provide the easily confused "Consumer" ( and by consumer I mean mindless drone) with a recognizable format. If you do something in a smart and easily reproducible manner, people will emulate it, and that will then become a defacto standard. Show me how to do OGC. Don't tell me. Rob. _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
