jmucchiello
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But they could also do that if you book includes words like "the" so I somehow expected the "fantasy"-ness of this license to be spelled out.jgbrowning said:Clause 11.1: Immediate termination of the license would be my guess.
But they could also do that if you book includes words like "the" so I somehow expected the "fantasy"-ness of this license to be spelled out.jgbrowning said:Clause 11.1: Immediate termination of the license would be my guess.
Henry said:I have to ask -- were there a lot of publishers who really worried about that? I'm not a publisher, so I guess worrying about my new snazzy game mechanic getting parroted across the entire gaming community I would consider a plus, not a minus. I don't see why I'd be worried about product identity, because the publisher controls how much of his material is open content through the PI description, anyway. In fact, I consider it one of the two big keystones of the OGL archway.
But the real question -- was this something a lot of publishers spoke about negatively?
DanMcS said:And Wulf, I seem to remember you once posting against people creating a "SRD" of your products, because you considered yourself a rules guy, and so basically your whole products were open content rules.
DanMcS said:You apparently could not call your new elf race an "elf", since that would mean you were redefining an elf. You probably shouldn't, even if you could, you'd just confuse people trying to use your product, who'd see "race: elf" and wonder where these weird racial abilities came from. You could call it a "myworld elf" and go hog-wild.
Saying there are no clerics in your setting, or anything with a divine power source, for that matter, isn't "redefining" anything. Doesn't seem like that would be a problem.
DiasExMachina said:Yes, but could you create a new Cleric based on your settings fluff?
webrunner said:My concern is that:
1) the is SRD not usable as a reference
AND
2) it forbids creating a reference using the SRD (since you can only put in references to the books)
AND
3) Apparenty the compendium will also not include actual content but references to content
that a searchable, web-formatted reference tool for, say, powers, is never going to legally happen.
DiasExMachina said:Yes, but could you create a new Cleric based on your settings fluff?