Brad Thompson wrote: > If the question ever deals with experience points or giving the character > bonuses similar to those granted by level advancement, the answer is always > "maybe". If WotC thinks it OUGHT to be a violation, then their lawyers will > simply change the license so that it is. > > Trying to find loopholes in a license that can plug them at will is an > exercise in futility. >
If your intent is breaching the license, yes.[1] That's a stupid waste of everyone's time, effort, and resources, as well as a breach of the not-inconsiderable 'good faith' WOTC has extended, many times, to the D20 community. (I've seen plenty of published products with pretty extreme license breaches. None of them have been ordered pulled off the market. Contrary to early paranoia, WOTC has been going far beyond the letter of the license in terms of trying to settle things with publishers -- or at least, that's how it looks from here. I'm not privy to inside info.) If your intent is to do something which is interesting, but which you do not wish to breach the license, no. IOW, during the early days of D20, a lot of companies hewed very close to core D&D mechanics, even when not required by the license. This made some of the early products clunkier than they needed to be. Knowing that you can, say, add 'action dice', or use 'departments' instead of 'races', or use an alternate hit point system, and not be in danger of hitting the walls of the STL, is a good thing. [1]Sort of like the folks who think you can avoid paying your income tax if you don't use the ZIP code, or the like. Even if such loopholes DID exist, Congress could fix them in thiry seconds, then pass another law to make all the old laws retroactively valid. Then add a Constitutional Amendment to prevent the Supreme Court from mucking in it. But I digress. _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
