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IANAL, but it sounds like you are asking about the "d20 System" trademark. Trademarks are all about identifying products and services. So you probably shouldn't use "d20" in the name or as a "badge" on your product, and you can't use "d20 System" at all. I would say you should be careful using...

4. It's late at night, the moon is full, and you notice that your partner is turning hairy. What do you do? a. Compliment him on his coiffure. b. Whip out the scissors and wolves-bane. c. Check your pack for doggie chow. d. Join him. (from U 2 KAN ERN BIG BUX, Dragon #128)

Generally a simple statement of intent is sufficient to give copyrighted material into the public domain. One example of a license that falls short of a giving into the public domain is the Creative Commons license.

Either cf. or q.v. (qq.v. for multiple references). Viz. is usually used to say something like "namely." The cf. notation is used to send the reader to an external source: "used THAC0 (cf. 2nd Ed. AD&D Player's Handbook)." The q.v. notation is used to call out what was just said as a...

Blue Rose/True20? FUDGE?

Perhaps you could turn the "jack-of-all-trades" aspect into a character trait. You get a character who wants to be everywhere, do everything, talk to everyone, and write it all down. He'd be bursting at the seams with information and can't keep it inside... since this is a mini-campaign, it...

I don't mind being told a designer's honest thoughts. I'm afraid I do expect it soft-pedaled just a bit though. Being considerate of your audience is always cool. Saying things that sound "edgy" and "controversial"... not so much. Just a bit is all I ask. Being told some rules element is...

Lorem Ipsum - All the facts - Lipsum generator If you mean OpenOffice Writer, I'm not surprised that it's a bit handier for the task than Microsoft Word.

Not if you do as a designer does [EDIT: tends to do] and speak in designer-speak ("un-fun," "sub-optimal," etc., including, arguably, "bullet in the head").

20 lb. paper is roughly 75 g/m². 24 lb. paper is roughly 90 g/m². 60 lb. offset is roughly 225 g/m². [EDIT: oops, make that about 90] AFAICT, brightness values roughly match ISO standard, with a variance of about 2 points (the ISO number should be 1-2 points higher than the "US" number). I...

Well, I don't know who or what a "Stormwind" is, as I said earlier, so I'm just going to say I think your point got lost. The pie analogy didn't work for me at all, sorry. Common sense dictates that some character concepts just don't make effective (or "maximally effective," or "optimized," I...

I don't agree, because you still haven't explained why "optimized" is opposed to "roleplayable." Now if the point you want to make is that the demands of having an effective character (within the context of a game) sometimes work to violate, or at least alter, a player's character concept...

You know, I have to agree again with MarkB: continually editing the OP is bad practice. All [Optim D&D PCs] are [Optim D&D PCs] Some [RPable D&D PCs] are not [Optim D&D PCs] Some [Optim D&D PCs] are not [RPable D&D PCs] Tautology, valid, invalid. I'm still waiting to hear what "optimized" and...

Making the translation explicit.

Reducing this to syllogism form reveals an invalid conclusion. All [D&D PCs] are [RPable D&D PCs] This we'll take as the minor premise. Some [D&D PCs] are [Optim D&D PCs] Some [D&D PCs] are not [Optim D&D PCs] One of these gets to be the major premise. Some [RPable D&D PCs] are not [Optim D&D...

Continued edits to the OP aside, this footnote, here, is an example of circular thinking. In essence: players who limit themselves limit themselves. So what? We've already discussed the notion that the terms of the argument in the OP still haven't been defined. This should serve to destroy the...

You can make do with Word. IME, you'll be spending more time fighting Word to get it to do what you want than you will doing what you want, but you can make do. Word 2007 can Save As PDF (you may have to download a free add-in from Microsoft first), or (if you don't have Word 2007 or want to...

To say nothing of the fact that some characters that are completely "optimized" (whatever the heck that's supposed to mean) are perfectly "roleplayable" (whatever the heck that's supposed to mean), and, therefore, in turn, some perfectly "roleplayable" characters are completely "optimized." In...

From the GSL FAQ on WOTC's website (www.wizards.com/d20): I agree with what Roger says above: this means you could influence character creation in a campaign setting product but not really restrict it, to wit: "The vast majority of PCs are humans, halflings, elves, or dwarves."

Well, thanks for trying to clarify it for me, but I can't be convinced that making a big analytical deal about it is the least bit useful. In order to turn this into some kind of law of gaming, you have to define the terms "ability to roleplay/skill at roleplaying," "ability to optimize/skill...