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Originally Posted by Urza Jan van Leyden, such software would be a snooze fest if it doesn't have the game mechanics. I and I suspect most people can come up with a pretty looking character sheet of sorts just by typing out character info into MS Word. |
But game mechanics can't be copyrighted, just the description of them. So a software program that uses those mechanics but doesn't reproduce the text of those mechanics should be safe. It is the datasets that the software mechanics interpret that are what would be at issue. If the customer types in the datasets then the software is fine and can interpret those datasets properly.
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