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Originally posted by Mourn
3rd-party products cannot be published in a way that makes the core books unnecessary. So, no more "complete" games that reprint large chunks of the core books. Instead, publishers will have to focus on content that references the core books (the SRD now being an actual reference document that points to "open content," rather than a container for OGC) rather than reprinting it. So, this sounds like the Advanced Player's Guide is just fine, but something like the WoW RPG (which reprints over 100 pages from the SRD) is not.
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OK, that sounds way better than what was going through my mind. Thanks for the clarification.
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Originally posted by Hussar
In other words, indie publishers will be forced to create their own mechanics instead of making yet another d20 clone.
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I would have to call this a good thing, too, then. One thing that got on my nerves about
OGL was no one creating their own game mechanics from scratch anymore... as well as companies throwing out their own, perfectly fine game mechanics to hop on the D20 train. Bring on the diversity!