--- Rogers Cadenhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
Those which are SRD derived stats (challenge rating and so forth) should be. The concept and description of the monster needn't be. > 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? No more than the license itself imposes. > > 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 ===== Jasyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
