--- 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.

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> Rogers Cadenhead
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