What The Sigil was ranting about was things like where the name of a spell
or monster are PI'd, so to use the monster or spell you need to change the
name. This makes trying to find the spell or monster in the book it was
taken from a lot harder and make the chain of OGC unclear. Also things like
NPC's that have everything but the stat block as PI. That's pretty much an
unusable bit of OGC, because all you can use is the statblock, not the
actual character.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:44 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [Ogf-l] OGC Designation (Rant)
We have two distinct worlds being released. In Cityscape
there is OGC
material on the edge of 80%, we are retaining the specific
world material
(primarily) as PI. In our d20 campaign world being released
at the end of
2002/ beginning of 2003, everything in the book, with the
exception of the
SRD material (and some other material) is PI and closed
content. I
personally don't see a problem with this, we are following
the spirit and
letter of the OGL IMHO. There must be an *UNLIMITED* amount
of PI a
publisher may include in their works, they need enough to
cover the original
work in the book.
Jonathan M. Thompson
Battlefield Press Inc
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Makers of the Cityscape, Sherwood, and Pulp Fantasy Role
Playing Games.
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Bush September
11, 2001
-----Original Message-----
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The Sigil
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 2:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Ogf-l] OGC Designation (Rant)
As a side rant on the ridiculous amount of stuff that is
being called "PI"
when in reality it isn't, I would like to say that in
addition to including
a 5% OGC minimum in the d20STL, I would also have preferred
to see a 1% PI
*maximum*. Anything published under the OGL is published as
one of three
things:
1.) OGC
2.) PI
3.) Neither of the above - IOW, *normally copyrighted
material.*
I could be wrong, but I thought PI was the things that made
your work
uniquely your own. In other words, stick to keeping things
that used to be
thought of as "trademarks" or "registered trademarks" PI.
While a few
specific creatures (e.g., Banedead) or spells (e.g. Fingers
of Mormo) or
NPCs (e.g., Elminster) ought to be PI as outstanding
features of your world,
I hardly think "Bartender #5" should be designated as PI.
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