At 05:13 PM 11/28/2001 -0500, "Marc Tassin, Ilium Software" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have had this discussion too many times but for the new people, here it >is. It is unfair to expect designers and publishers who have put blood, >sweat, tears and in many cases lots of money into the creation of a unique >and interesting world, to open those up for all time. Once material is >open it stays open. So to say "open the whole spell" is to say "give up >ownership of the thing you have created."
Point taken. However, there are numerous things in OGL-licensed works that are closed completely even though they are expressed using the mechanics of the SRD. Just to pick one example off the top of my head, steamjacks are a cool mechanical steampunk giant that are closed in one of the D20 modules I bought. Since the rules embodied by the monster -- the stats in the stat block, combat attacks, and so forth -- are derived from the SRD, shouldn't they be open? The answer is no in the module, which doesn't contain more than 5-8 percent open content, none of it useful. Isn't there some obligation on the part of a D20 publisher to be somewhat generous because the company benefits so strongly from WOTC's generosity? Rogers Cadenhead E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.cadenhead.org _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
