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It doesn't make it useless, but it makes it harder to use as anything other than a reference. As a user, you could annotate the rules to indicate that they require or work well with certain other rules. You could create a subsystem page that links disparate rules that need each other...

I imagine that there are circumstances in which you'd say no, correct? Because otherwise you could just publish the license itself in the book vis-a-vis the d20 license and people would still have to comply. The fact that I don't know the circumstances under which you would say no means I have...

Here's a sample policy for such a beast. No anonymous edits. Problematic accounts can be banned, at the IP level if need be. A six month embargo on content from new publications. Publishers can of course request the embargo be reduced/eliminated. Use a wiki that allows locking of pages to...

I prefer our laws - we take intent into consideration. No offence intended. :) That's a good thing. There'd be too much room for discrimination and such otherwise. Hmmm, I didn't realise US law had that precedent, or that it was a factor in establishing the OGL. Need to meditate on that one...

Yes, I did post in one of threads over there some time back. I was able to understand better where Pramas is coming from (his desire to protect the trademark) due to that. I don't agree with his position but certainly respect it. I probably was less clear about my position in that conversation...

It is extremely generous, as I said, I love Green Ronin and True20. It's simply intellectually dishonest and disingenuous to simply reproduce the text simply to avoid the trademark. I'd feel much better simply telling people to buy True20 from Green Ronin. But I'm enjoined from doing that...

Sorry, that sentence is probably unclear. I meant to say that a lot of people asked permission, not that they got it. As far as I know, ony Judge's Guild was actually granted permission. I would like to back that statement up with hard data, but I have only anecdotes to go on.

Role-playing is a culture of remixing. Take some Scarred Lands, add in Freeport, mix in some Arcana Evolved classes, maybe a race and some equipment from Rokugan, and hey presto, a campaign world! Not necessarily a cut-and-paste world, but something unique and organic that never comes out the...

What I do in my game is essentially this. I give the players some temporary characters that will interact with the main characters during the cutscene; each temporary character has a main goal (obtain or divulge some piece of information, use a feat, successful skill check, extract a...

Stone to Steel has an appendix on materials that covers deriving hardness and hit points, and their master chart covers those stats off for all the weapons introduced. It's been brought out in PDF form recently (I bought a copy) and I am suitably impressed. ST COoley also put out a book some...

Hark, then, to my tale of woe. Some three long years ago I fled the "old country", haunted by the shadow of a scandal. Full fifteen hours I suffered, stuffed with hundreds of others inside a small, barely ventilated container (although I had to change containers in the City of Angels). At...

Well-executed but not compelling Liber Sodalitas: Scions of the Holy Triad is a 16-page PDF from Highmoon Media Productions. One page is dedicated the Open Gaming License. There is no index or table of contents. One is not really needed for such a short document, but would have been welcome...

*whine* Not only did my birthday pass (Monday) without winning anything, but I didn't get any RPG stuff for my birthday at all. */whine* Not that I'm bitter or anything. :) Honestly, though, I think the contest is a brilliant marketing move - I certainly won't forget the names of the involved...

In New Zealand, you get ISBNs from the National Library. http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/services/5isbnissn.html Note that publishers are also required to lodge two copies of every book (even electronic ones!) with the National Library. I don't know if that's still true in the US (used to be...

One thing that seems unclear from the previews - is it actually more complex than standard d20? The reason I ask this is that from what I've seen, it seems possible (likely) that a given character may have multiple token pools. On top of which several of the class abilities seem that they'd be...

Glad to know it's not just me. But IANAL. Personally, I think Malhavoc would benefit quite a lot from loosening its grip on IP, but that's Monte's decision.

It's a wiki, so each rule links to an entry for the original source. That entry contains the section 15 and open content designation from that book (for eventual cross-checking of compliance). It's a bit of a mess at the moment as I am in the middle of some heavy redesign; once that settles...

I can answer this one, assuming you quoted it correctly. It's clearly meant to be your constituion score plus your Sterngth modifier. So Someone with STR 14, CON 16 would use an 18 (16 +2 ) to determine their carrying capacity.

Back on topic - thanks for the clarification. So I'm interpreting this to mean that the stunt and magic systems are not open. Frukathka - from the previews and other info I've seen it looks like it's meant to drop right in. Just don't mix systems on a character (every character should one set...

IANAL. Under Australian law, I can't - according to the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (amended) fair dealing has a very limited scope. Although the Attorney General's office has circulated a proposal to add a statutory license that permits private copying of copyright material. Under New...