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Re: those who asked why armor should cause arcane casting failure, in DragonQuest used to say (a la the fairie weakness) that wrought iron interfered with magic. So mages could wear plain leather, but more heavily metalic armors interfered with casting. When I first built my 4E Wizard I was...

How about Cleave (Fighter 1)? When you hit, you also do damage to an opponent who you didn't make an attack roll against. Wow! By my reading, there's an Attack Power which has a to hit roll, but which does 3 damage to a different adjacent opponent, and that 3 damage is not an attack. What...

Thanks very much. Good find. Didn't know that rule existed. Thanks again. Cheers, Lee

On p. 281 there's a diagram showing who has cover and who doesn't in the graphic. Assuming that the bugbears are allies and that all bugbears are enemies of the attacker, isn't the bugbear in the lower left corner behind cover (his ally). The bugbear closest to the interior black wall seems...

Discounts for previous owners Are there any discounts for purchasers of previous versions?

Are you saying that you think rules don't embody a "concept". That's an acceptable type of PI. It's not limited to characters and creatures. I'd say that rules are by definition concepts. The statement of rules is "language". The display of rules is "formatting". Where a concept is written...

Why is this hard at all? Product Identity is not merely limited to trademarks. Since you can protect formatting (used to display the rules), language (used to describe the rules), themes (which represent those intangible "look & feel" things you may trying to convey -- in your game world...

Actually, unless the descriptive part is merely commentary (say, on how good Southern food tastes to the author in the summertime), then even the descriptive parts of the task itself may not be copyrightable. HOWEVER, one thing that may be copyrightable is the selection of facts. If you went...

First, WotC didn't PI the term "ECL", they just didn't release it as OGC. That is VERY VERY different. If they PI it, then unless you can show that you got the term from somewhere else, then you can't use the term in any work which Section 15s the work containing the definition of PI. If WotC...

Actually, Green Ronin and a couple of other publishers have specifically chosen not to agree with #1 above. They have PI'd mechanics. I think the license can be read as to allow for this. Consider this. A person is allergic to strawberries, but likes many other fruits. They might say, "my...

As I've said before, since people have mentioned that you police matters like this and it was my primary concern, then my concerns are now much more limited. Thanks for the reply. Cheers, Lee Valentine PS Kudos on your increasing sales trends -- I saw a sales chart a little while ago and it...

That's what I've been trying to say. If you release 100% OGC, what stops someone from pulling the file into a distiller, ripping out your artwork and borders and stuff? Nothing. So your senario of copying my PDF and sell it for $3 less is still viable, it just takes a few more minutes of work...

A great answer. Thanks. Lee

Re: Me Too Alan -- you are a wonderful person with wonderful advice. Thanks. The fontography and layout info was very interesting and useful. Cheers, Lee

That's very useful information. Thanks. I'm not so concerned about things being pirated by people dedicated to the mission. I'm really only interested in two things: a) creating a really minimal hurdle which makes fairly honest people realize that there's something on the page they...

Actually, I didn't forget it at all. In fact I went on a rather long diatribe noting that I was not trying to find a way to prevent people from pirating things -- that's an exercise in futility. No, Joe, the format is a format and it is an element listed in the OGL that can be PI'd. Check...

I actually have a substantially greater understanding of Title 17 and the OGL than my initial post must have conveyed. If you read my original post you'll see that I mentioned two options, so I clearly understand that there are options and, in general, I can think of what they are. However...

I know this has been discussed in various incarnations, but, in short, what do people think of PDF products with little or no artwork at all. I know that full color PDFs are pretty and people tend to rate them higher for professional look and feel. But at the same time, everybody and there...

Howdy, folks. I'm working on a PDF d20 accessory. I want to open up the text as Open Game Content, but I'd still like to sell some products. I am wondering how people prevent others from _legally_ (piracy aside) making copies of their PDFs and distributing them. Here's my point -- if you...

Biomatter was not an element. Lava/Magma were quasi-elements (i.e., hybrids between two main elements). Life: positive elemental plane. The Elemental wheel has a few differences from the one from the Manual of the Planes. Perhaps enough that it's an implementation of a similar concept, but...