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Some time back I posted a question in the main publishers forum about license compatibility. I posited that an Attribution-ShareAlike license was identical in spirit to the OGL, if wider in scope. One of the replies pointed out that the OGC must be under the OGL, but the PI could in fact be...

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I'm doing something similar with my campaign setting. I'm integrating a lot of disparate OGC since my stack of 'essential books' has topped 50; most of them, of course, I only use a subset of rules from. For example, I only use chapter 11 from a 320-page book - but it has a core class in that...

I'm looking at releasing some free OGL material, and was wondering if anyone else has thought about the implications of using a Creative Commons license. Ideally, I would release the material as public domain material, but I believe that is incompatible with the OGL and d20 licenses. After a...

I've been talking to my FLGS, and discovered that their distributor is WOTC. There don't appear to be any other distributors offering service in NZ, and as far as I know there are only 4 FLGS in the country. The issue, of course, is that only a handful of non-WOTC material is available (mostly...

My campaign site is at http://www.johnnybowtie.net/Haranshire/ . We just ran the last session for a while (I'm moving to NZ) so updates have lagged slightly. The House Rules, Table Rules, and Current Rumors pages were the ones I got the best feedback on. Also got good feedback when I set up...

Well, having jsut picked up the ELH, I noticed a couple things I can do with it even if I never run an epic game. 1) Design major and minor artifacts. The Epic Magic Items and the effects of the Epic Spells give me a way to quantify and balance artifact-level power. I can have opposing...

I model skills because my campaign tools calculate skill bonuses. I need to figure synergy bonuses, feat bonuses, class, cross-class or prohibited on a per class basis, racial bonuses, special ability bonuses. equipment bonuses (like a cloak of elvenkind), and make sure the various bonuses...

Which works fine until you consider the following: Some campaign settings change the selection of bonus feats based on your clan, region, or background (Rokugan, for example). A feat could be defined that allows you access to the fighter list (expanding your class' normal bonus feat list)...

Re: what are using for development environment? Well, I'm using XML for the rules, XSLT for processing the rules, and HTML with Javascript for my user interface. The main drawback to a database as such is that a relational database doesn't work especially well with loosely structured data...

I'm pretty much a new DM and I have been absorbing the huge amount of d20 information out there. I've pretty much decided that there is a LOT more good, useful, and interesting material than I can hope to keep track of on my own. One thing that is absolutely essential for me is a variety of...