--- Greg Benage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What material in an SRD derived work >must< be OGC? If you create a new feat, must that feat's game mechanics be OGC?
What about a new prestige class? The "programming" of the class (BAB progression, saves, skill points/level and so forth) occurs with concepts that exist in the SRD. Does that mean that the classes mechanics are OGC while the name, social significance, and unique role in the world needn't be? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 2:42 PM > Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] OGC Designation (Rant) > > > > I think that's really > > what some folks want from those who are essentially riding on WotCs > > coat-tails. Give us the same rights that WotC (or any other OGC > contributor) > > gave you. > > Isn't that precisely what OGL publishers do? WotC gave them (er, us) > the right to use material they've designated as OGC. Third-party d20 > publishers do exactly the same thing. Of course, WotC hasn't > designated everything they possibly could (far from it) as OGC. > Neither do third-part d20 publishers. > > In any case, I don't think many publishers consider "openness" or the > "idea of open gaming" to be "the point" of the OGL/d20STL. From my > perspective, "the point" is that we get to publish RPG products that > are compatible with the bestselling RPG, as long as we follow the > terms of the licenses. Openness for its own sake, or as some kind of > ideology, has zero value to me as an employee of a game company -- and > I suspect the same is true for the decision-makers at WotC. > > Of course, I have self-interested reasons for making our OGC as easy > to use as possible. For starters, I want to be able to use other > publisher's OGC. If every publisher's OGC is impossible to use in a > practical sense, the license loses some of its value (not a whole lot, > probably, but some). > > Greg > FFG > > _______________________________________________ > 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
