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You must copy the ENTIRE S15 from any work you use OGL from. The only 'exception' is that you don't need to duplicate entries. So if product 1 has B C D And if product 2 has B E F Your S15 will be: B C D E F And anyone who uses yours will use: B C D E F (and your products addition) Tome of...

I'd say not.

While it's true that "aggro" as a mechanic is part of MMOs, it's a concept which is fine in RPGs -- even though the DM is using logic, not a formula. Example: Last game, my Blood Magus unleashed a Sudden Maximized Firebrand on a swarm of Hill Giants. The giants, fairly dim types, HAD been...

Creatures attack whoever the DM is most irked at at the moment. :) No, seriously, what others have said. Play the monsters "logically". Mindless creatures just go for the nearest target -- randomly roll if there's several options. Semi-intelligent things will go for whoever is hurting them...

This is true -- you can make all the copies you want for your own personal use, but that wasn't what we were discussing and so I didn't feel obliged to call it out.

Sorry, 'sharing' PDFs is not fair use -- it's no different than xeroxing an entire book, handing the pages to someone, and saying "Throw these away later". You don't have the right to xerox the book itself, so the use to which the pages are put is not an issue. The term is "copyright" -- the...

a)How can you prove they didn't think of it simulataneously? The license says "You won't sue us if something we come up with looks like something you came up with." b)You can't copyright a name. c)You can trademark it, but, odds are, you probably didn't, and even if you did, see 'a'. While I...

I disagree. As noted, the GSL gives WOTC a lot of power to make arbitrary changes with no way for a publisher to change their products to be in compliance with the new license, no cure period or grandfather clause. Understanding what WOTC wants from the license enables publishers to stay in the...

Scott, you might want to take a look at my "Vision" thread. This isn't about legal questions, but about WOTC's goals and desires, so it sounds like it's pretty much in your balliwick -- the legalisms are the means, but the vision is the end.

It was part of the STL, as well. The difference was that the STL included a 30 day 'cure' period, so even if the license was changed, you could revise your product to conform to it (not to mention the possibility of just going to the OGL). IANAL, but, as written, it seems that WOTC can put...

As has been said many times before, by keeping people in the D&D "space", as opposed to moving to non-D20 games. It also keeps people in the hobby itself, based on WOTCs late 90s marketing studies. Since all but a tiny percentage of players of 'spin off' D20 games DON'T already have a PHB, the...

Mostly, the fact that concerns over such a scenario will keep a lot of companies from converting existing IP to 4e. I think, instead, we will see new creations that don't have existing value. It may be this is deliberate, to encourage the creation of 4e-specific concepts instead of retooling 3e...

Prior to the actual release of the GSL, it was said it would be a "Fantasy only" license. However, nothing of this nature appears in the GSL/SRD, and it seems there is nothing in the text of the license which can prevent someone from creating "Modern" classes, adding guns/tech, and so on. Was...

And all of the other dozens of 4e powers which move characters against their will? The PCs shuffle the monsters all over the board; the monsters shove ineffectually against the PCs? If you don't like Things Happening To Your Character, maybe you shouldn't play 4e... I just don't get this...

Would those rules include the rules for applying a "PC Template" to a monster or leveled NPC and picking "Come And Get It" as one of their powers? If so, why not mark some powers in the PHB as "Not for use by NPCs, even those built with class templates"? Your reply to every broken, or even...

1)What protection is there for products which use terms which are not now part of the SRD, but which someday might be? Leaving aside issues of core material such as Druid and Bard, which we can safely guess will someday be part of D&D, it is not possible to always guess what WOTC has planned --...

"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." I think the GSL, as written, will keep wavering companies on the OGL side of the fence, whereas a license which offered more protection for the possibility of either 4e or the GSL not living up to...

The thing is, that when you declare content open under the OGL, you're asserting your right to that content -- and others, down the line, are trusting in that assertion. Just because YOU have no commercial intent doesn't mean someone else WON'T, and if you put something under the OGL, you are...

High legal risk, very little gain. Your safest bet would be to scour the masses of existing OGC for 'prior art' which is close to 4e -- for example, fixed skill bonuses from Unearthed Arcana, the fact that barbarians a re fatigued "until the end of the current encounter" (establishing the...

Y'know, I was actually hoping for a post from Scott or Lidda articulating their motivations and goals...understanding what WOTC expects to gain from the GSL might make interpreting and understanding it easier.