Faustus von Goethe wrote: >> From: "Alec A. Burkhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> In other words the Free20 logo is for people who are basically doing >> d20 material that either can't use WotC's 'd20 system' logo (probably >> because they are including character creation/advancement) or don't >> want to use WotC's logo >> for some other reason. > > > As I understand it - and I have been following very closely - that is > not the stated (nor intended) purpose of the free20 effort. It is > however an obvious (and not unwelcome) side-effect.
From my POV: Free20 was *not* originally intended to be a d20 replacement. I may be poor, young, and stupid, but even I know that would be an easy way to upset WotC. Rather, Free20 was meant to mean "this is 100% open gaming", as a way to flag works that were "photocopy & distrubite" level works. It has since grown to mean more than that, and might have been replaced in the 100% open gaming idea, but that was the original idea. Free20 (and the various associated and replacement logos) do fill the niche of OGL material based on d20 that can't or won't use the d20 logo, but that's more of an unintended side effect brought on by WotC's clarification that d20 means "extended from D&D" and not just "uses the same core mechanics as D&D." DM _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
