> > Because the OGL released by WotC does not serve everyone's needs. >> Just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for everyone. > >If you don't mind me asking, what is it about the OGL that you find lacking?
i'll assume that Mark will respond on his own, but here're my problems with it: it is non-infectious: i can base a work on open content, and portions of my new work may be closed, thus not contributing to the community it doesn't require it to be practical to reuse content: while it requires you to make content open, it isn't necessarily easy for others to actually reuse that content. if i want to reuse all the open spells from Relics & Rituals, frex, i still have to retype or scan&edit all of them. which, for me, means that, combined with the elements that i either need permission for or can't use at all (the closed content and PI mixed in with the OGC parts of the spells), makes it not worth the effort. so far, the only OGC i have reused has been digital stuff, because it's actually saving me effort by reusing it. if i'm going to have to type it up myself, i may as well create it myself, too, because the actual writing of something is the hard part (IMHO), not coming up with it.--10% inspiration, 90% perspiration, as they say, so if i'm only being saved the 10%, i'll just write it myself and not be limited by someone else's work. -- woodelf <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.home.net/woodelph/ If any religion is right, maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them. --Sinclair _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
