Recent content by JonL

You very much can copyright specific descriptions and explanations of mechanics though. With a license like ORC, adopters can use those word-for-word rather than re-inventing the wheel. That time and effort savings has value, as evinced by people adopting it. Where it does speak to computer...

Good, news on that front: Alliance includes an ORC-licensed Pass/Fail cycle implementation for anyone who would find it useful. Similarly, Humakt e.V.'s adventures include a Fumble mechanic, should anyone wish to incorporate such. Seeds are sprouting.

Ugh, looks like someone did a not-even-half-assed edit on that page when they changed licenses. That language is almost entirely from their crappy in-house licenses that preceded their ORC adoption, and they didn't even change all the OGL to ORC references on the page. Regardless, the license...

"Alliance" from Rogue Comet already reintroduced the pass/fail option. Similarly, Humakt e.V.'s adventures reintroduce Fumble mechanics, though in a novel fashion, fumble on your rating +1. That harmonizes better with high-rolls-winning-ties and big-success on-your-rating than fumble-on-20 did...

They finally came around on that, thankfully, abandoning their awful in-house licenses and getting on board the ORC train for both QuestWorlds & BRP.

This is absurd on the face of plain reading of the OGL, and decades of heterogeneous use in the industry (to say nothing of precedents in software going back to the 80's that giants like IBM honor). Section 5 explicitly speaks to original content, and NOT A SINGLE WORD of the OGL restricts its...