Recent content by Matt Thomason

The licensing nightmare does seem to be the case in many older games that used a license :( I've noticed a trend in newer ones for the rights to pass back to the licensor, so I've assumed modern licensing contracts specifically do that - for example, all the previous editions of Warhammer...

Consider me interested! I would suggest a good starting point is to look at books that already do "universal" stats, such as Bruce Heard's excellent Calidar setting books, which have a universal stat system designed to convey all the necessary data for a creature/character/whatever and then a...

Not necessarily. They may not want to use the CC license to bring material in. It could be construed as saying "We acknowledge that WotC own these game mechanics". Then there's the issue that it's not even a 100% certainty that someone can't revoke a CC license (we can't know for sure unless...

Personally, I would say no. You could certainly use both licenses, but you can't turn the CC 5.1 SRD into OGL-licensed text that way. The material you have permission to use is still copyrighted by WotC, you're just using it under license. You don't have the right to declare someone else's...

BECMI's Mystara setting, as it's what I grew up with. Just not the way they did it with the AD&D version that tried to retcon too many things that didn't fit into AD&D rules.

Unfortunately all too true. We can try and reduce their practical options, but as @pemerton keeps pointing out to me, they can always find something to sue over if they really want to.

I think you have a point there, but only in as much as everyone co-operated because the 900lb gorilla needed to be taken down and nobody was big enough to do it by themselves. If you don't have a 900lb gorilla to create that level of threat, you don't need the entire community to deal with it...

They could do what I always wished D&D versions had done in the past: Rewrite the rules at a mechanical level, while retaining stat block compatibility (arguably, AD&D 2e did take this approach, but we haven't seen it since) For example - AC is AC, but how it actually gets applied in combat...

Of course it won't, it only moves along the ground!

Which Creative Commons License? :) That's the biggest difference of all. Creative Commons has a variety of different licenses for different purposes, which all work different ways. OGL is one license that only works one way. Creative Commons is designed for many different use cases, while...

The answer there really has to be: it will be for some people, but not for others, just as with every edition before and every edition to come after.

Your phrasing here is quite difficult to understand - "reproduced or derived from" would include making something based just on the SRD just as much as something that also includes content based on 3rd party material. "Originally" would only apply if you're not using any source, and are making...

No, what you said was: To which I answered To which you disagreed, and we've been disagreeing ever since.

Yeah, anything they do in the short term would only make the whole situation worse. That does not mean we can trust them never to 180 in the long term. Especially if they reach a point where they're happy their player base is using OneDnD and no longer cares about the previous material. Plus...

You were the one that said 5.1 under CC means you no longer need the OGL for reusing OGC from derivative material (the 3PP works licensed under the OGL)