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I don’t see any such requirement on the Creative Commons site. You could release that part separately as CC, then use it as a basis for a commercial product. Your commercial product would still have to attribute the SRD, and you CAN also attribute your own work, but you wouldn’t need to...

It’s released under CC-BY. You can use it, as long as you “attribute” the CC work, eg say where you got it from. You DO NOT need to release your own work under the CC or include a CC license. That would be CC-BY-SA, “share alike”. The required attribution text is on the first page of the...

“too little too late” is an absurd thing for them to say. 1) this is more open than the 1.0a status quo. Don’t see how that’s “too little” 2) they never actually changed anything about the OGL yet. The proposed changes never went into affect. Don’t see how it’s “too late”.

The races in the SRD don’t match the races even in the most recent errata, let alone what might be in One D&D. For many products the difference won’t matter, I guess.

Tell me you’ve never played Crusader Kings 3 without telling me you’ve never played Crusader Kings 3.

They're leaving 1.0a untouched They're putting 5.1 in CC Are we overlooking the changes that have come in the last few years, around races, alignments, not to mention the upcoming D&D One changes, which aren't addressed by either of these moves? All the people who wanted to empower 3pp, I...

Sounds like a lot of what's staying out of the CC is the stuff WotC invests playtesting dollars into. If you want to make balanced classes and spells for your own CC-derived work, you will have to invest in your own playtesting.

You could do it without the OGL before, but to be safe you would have needed the services of a good IP lawyer to make sure you're not accidentally infringing, or to try to defend you in court if WotC felt otherwise and took action. The OGL was a set of clearly spelled out guidelines that you...

Once again, you miss the point. The actual text of those rules is now in the Creative Commons. You can quote whole passages of rules text, or the entire CC subset of the SRD verbatim in your product. It's not just the idea, or process, or mechanic, it's the actual word for word text that you...

The a Last time I was on jury duty, i was in the selection pool for a civil trial. The judge mentioned that there was flexibility over whether civil trials were by jury, or whether they were just heard by the judge. This specific judge was a big proponent of civil juries, and gave a long...

Ancient Red Dragon? No. But an "ancient, red dragon"? A "crimson-scaled dragon of unfathomable age"?

As we said elsewhere, the actual rules aren't protected by copyright. The point of Pathfinder's SRD is to be a uniqe expression of those rules. As far as I know, the Pathfinder SRD isn't a product relying on WotC's SRD, it's a product that REPLACES WotC's SRD. Edit: I previously thought much...

If a 3pp is putting out a module that just tells me to look up monsters in the MM, and treasures in the DMG, I'm probably not buying that product anyway. I would much rather buy an adventure that has unique monsters and magic items in sidebars, or in the appendix. The fact that this means such...

But they specified the OGL 1.0a is still valid for products that DON'T use a WotC SRD. So you could still release your work under OGL 1.0a, using the Pathfinder SRD, as far as I can understand. Am I reading that wrong?

Looks like we crashed https://www.dndbeyond.com/, btw.

As I said a moment ago, you didn't need the SRD or CC to restate those rules, but it was on you to make sure you stated those rules in a way that was concise and clear to your reader. The OGL was there to let you just use, verbatim, certain rules expressions so you didn't have to go to the...

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Whether they're written poorly and published that way, written poorly but corrected in editing, or written well through a lot of effort by the author, it's gotta be helpful at least to know that an official wording of a complicated rule can be reprinted without fear.

I addressed that in another post, which I'm sure you'll stumble over in a moment, but just wanted to praise your work on Blueholme. I had already bought the books long before the OGL debacle.

I think it's fair to say if you want to use even baseline classes, races and magic-items, you should have to opt in to the OGL. If you're making up literally everything about the setting, down to its peoples and how the heroes function, then you no longer need the OGL.