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You're falling into the trap that OGC must equal copyrighted material. It doesn't have to. OGC in any given document consists of "must be" and "can be." "Must be" includes: a.) any game mechanics that do not "embody the Product Identity" (whatever that means, not having ever found a suitable...

Saw the thread, declined to comment on it until you invited me to do so. IANAL, TINLA, but based on my understanding of copyright law, here is the gist (copied from that thread). The OGC Designation in Mythic Heroes, in reality, gives me no more re-usable material than *any* other RPG book...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. Technically, Wulf's expression of Open Game Content is valid and correct per 1.d of the OGL - Open Game Content can take one of two forms (note the joining "and" in the original) - it might be better parsed thusly: Since Wulf did not...

The meaning seems to have evolved since I first coined the term on the ogf-l mailing lists (unless I'm gravely mistaken, this post: http://www.mail-archive.com/ogf-l@opengamingfoundation.org/msg06225.html is the first time the term was introduced - by myself - on Nov 28, 2001, so the term is...

Fertility != Lust. ;) As to the point that there may not have been gods of lust due to the concept being too narrow, I think that's an interesting one to explore. Also, not saying that historically, all deific incarnations of lust were female, it just seems that every time the topic comes up...

I should also note that my experience (limited though it is) in watching industry mailing lists, emailing publishers, and so on, indicates that most publishers are willing to share (if not necessarily sit down on a collaboration). Collaboration happens mostly behind the scenes, not on an...

Um... WTF? Not to sound bitter, but the blame for this falls solely on WotC, because they have never wanted to bother themselves with enforcing the OGL. WotC is the entity that has allowed publishers to withhold portions of their contributions from the community rather than making it an...

Not to threadjack this thread, but IIRC, a paladin's God must be within one step of LG, no? In other words, LG, LN, or NG. Maybe it's just me, but I tend to see "Lust" as more of a Chaotic trait - one that is about "personal freedom" rather than "order" - thus disqualifying said goddess from...

I need to do some digging (and my google-fu fails me) but I remember reading something in "The Winner's Guide to Board Games" (published in the late 70's) that (IIRC), there was an RPG version of "Prince Valiant" sometime in the mid-50's. The author of TWGtBG was an unabashed D&D fan, but...

To repeat the gist of a post I made earlier in the thread, one key to the discussion is not found in the paladin himself; rather, it is found in the reaction of the acolyte sent to find him. By the RAW, a paladin's code states that "a paladin’s code requires that she ... act with honor." The...

The grandparent would call this "interpreting the rules" - you're interpreting what the word "implies" means. I'm looking at the list of actions they actually wrote, which is the only list of actions associated with the word "Evil" in the RAW... since paladins are forbidden from committing Evil...

I'll point you back towards one of my posts earlier in this thread. In a nutshell, the debate can be reduced to a single point: The "and so forth" phrase in the rules as written implies that the list of forbidden activities is *exemplary*, not *exhaustive* - i.e., just because a given activity...

Ye gads... I am fast approaching 1500 (though at least a couple hundred are TSR's). Hi, my name is The Sigil, and I'm a PDF junkie... --The sigil

I could be wrong, but I think your sentence should read, "(w)hen criticizing grammar or spelling, BE SURE that the critical post is without blemish." The noun in the second part of your sentence is "post" - this is the noun being modified by the derivative of the verb "criticize." The post...

I'll add two things... 1 - The PCs need to decide how they will divide the loot ("auction method", "everyone takes turns grabbing a magic item method" or whatever). 2 - The PCs need to set a "marching order" and elect a party caller (to use bD&D parlance) - outside of combat, I only listen to...

I'll hit the original question first, and yes, the revised version is completely updated to be compatible with 3.5e. There are more spells, more feats, and more music abilities than in the previous version. As to how complex things are, well, the simple answer is "you don't have to use...

Word, dawg! 8) (That's the correct response, right?) --The Sigil

IIRC (it's been a few years), I did have Benford - I think it was in my senior year and was High-Energy Plasma Physics (which has a pretty healthy dose of E&M in it). I myself prefer to put the cap at about 3 more than you did (I like the idea of a 5th-level character who has devoted his entire...

Yes, that edit is helpful... I'm just trying to clear up the misconception that "P2P is illegal" or "filesharing is illegal." It should be "copyright infringement is illegal, and often P2P is the vehicle by which infringement is done." There are some really great legitimate reasons for P2P and...

Bzzt! Wrong! I have here a set of all the PDF works I have published. I own the copyright on them. It is legal for me to make them available via a filesharing network. I have also a copy of the SRD, complete with OGL... and a copy of the latest Linux distro, complete with GPL. Because I...