Luke Jones wrote:
You can. To use the D20 license you must make sure that you don't have "interactive game" elements. If you want interactive game elements (as described in the license), then you can't use the D20 license, but can use the OGL.In essences this means I could use items from the Wizards SRD that are under the OGL such as feats and equipment, but not monsters which are only under the d20 license?
Your "interactive" PBEM would probably be okay for D20 as well, assuming that the PBEM stuff is high level results of success or fail, without distributing low-level game mechanics.I'm feeling particularly woolly-headed right now, so bare with me ;)
I'm OK if my PBM hides such things as dice rolling and damage amounts ans instead uses phrases to describe say combat, e.g. a near miss, a devasting crushing blow. Even though it's using the d20 items in the background?
A lot of this is actually about electronic *publishing*. If you have a program that you want to run personally and e-mail the results to people, then licensing restrictions are vastly simplified.So if all the SRD mechanics where held in human readable XML, you could release non readable code to use it? I wouldn't want to do that anyway as I'm pretty much deep in open source software. Actually if I where to make any money out such a project, it would be through the service of running games, organising players, providing community areas etc, rather than selling software.
If you intend to develop any kind of program and make it available to others, then there is a big gotcha in the Wizard's interpretation of "clearly marked open content" from the SRD. Basically, any OGC you implement in distributed code must be human readable, which basically means you can't *compile* game mechanics code and distribute it.
Hmmm... the situation is much more flexible than I first thought.
Thanks very much for the help so far!
Sasha
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