Clark says: "I believe that referring to a non-OGC feat is "using" that feat under the license, since you arent just listing it, you are "using" it in a stat block or as a prerequisite for a new feat, etc."
I see what you're saying here and the distinction between Using and referring seems pretty clear. Is this a better way of stating the problem then: *) If you Use material under the OGL you must contribute that material as open game content. Then, since I cannot contribute material from Tome and Blood I cannot Use the name of their feat as a pre-req. That's all consistent but I think it potentially leads to an entirely different problem and that's what I was trying to get at it my previous post. When I include the name of a feat of my own invention in the pre-requisites for something else I'm Using the name of that feat. (*) would imply then that the name of the feat becomes open game content and despite my earlier attempts to protect it as product identity I couldn't do that (since something cannot be both Open Game Content and PI). This would mean a whole lot of people have been inadvertently opening up material that they had been trying to protect as PI. Steven Palmer Peterson www.Second-World-Simulations.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
