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Originally Posted by Scott_Rouse  If I could I'd post the damn thing right now I would. The big issue I need to tackle is the SRD. As confusing as the OGL SRD is, I know the GSL SRD it massively more confusing. Unlike the OGL SRD, that said you can use x,y, & z free, clear, no questions asked, the GSL SRD presents alot of ambiguity.
Our intention was to let you use a term like Dragonborn and add to it through creative design and devlopment. We wanted to avoid copy and past publishing. So we add rules of use but we didn't do a good job of explaining how you can (or can't) use it. |
Sigh. Copy and paste publishing was really useful to me as a DM and player.
www.d20srd was easier to use (for the stuff in the
srd) than the
WotC rtfs or my books in my online games. We all have/had varying levels of D&D books but the copy and paste online stuff was used as a reference tool more often.
But now no
srd.com for
4e, no free
4e WotC srd, and it is not clear what publishers and authors can actually do and not do under the
GSL.
This is to prevent what? Online srds that compete with
DDI? Pocket
srd books that compete with actual core books? Mutant and Masterminds style variant games that don't require D&D books to use?
I think the ambiguities are one good area to revise in an effort to improve the
GSL but I wish the underlying goal of avoiding copy and paste publishing were eliminated and all the resulting limitations that resulted from trying to accomplish it.
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