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<blockquote data-quote="Vrylakos" data-source="post: 253143" data-attributes="member: 436">I think the crosspollination is useful in only certain circumstances, where it creates universal rules that other companies might take advantage of and that creates a common rules-set or language.Posting every Prestige Class from a product does not aid in this, IMO.Posting, say, a set of rules for underwater combat, or posting a rules system for jousting does.Posting some new monster abilities would aid this creation of a common ground.Posting ALL of the stats from the upcoming Big Book O' Monsters would not, and would amount to piracy.What I'd like to see is people adopting the work of others... say, one system for mass combat, and either updating it or patching it to make it better either overall or for their specific purposes. (Mass combat in Dark Sun might use a slightly patched version of a theoretical OGC Mass Combat system.)What I'm bugged by is the duplication of rules and sorting out which ones are better. One month it was all ships and maritime books being published, another it was all mass combat being talked about, now it's races, it seems, etc. etc. In the midst of all this overlap, there are differing versions of the same concepts expressed in rules... Some are good, others... not so. Monte CooK and Mike Mearls stand out as good rules engineers, and I now buy their stuff because of this. It would be a benefit if Company X could use Monte Cook's &quot;d20 Cooking Rules&quot; and credit Monte with it. People would see the work of good rules engineers and it might allow for greater exposure. This crosspollination would be a good thing.For critical rules chunks there could be a common ground, a common language, and an OGC site devoted to this moral/business stance might be a good thing.VRYLAKOS</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vrylakos, post: 253143, member: 436"] I think the crosspollination is useful in only certain circumstances, where it creates universal rules that other companies might take advantage of and that creates a common rules-set or language. Posting every Prestige Class from a product does not aid in this, IMO. Posting, say, a set of rules for underwater combat, or posting a rules system for jousting does. Posting some new monster abilities would aid this creation of a common ground. Posting ALL of the stats from the upcoming Big Book O' Monsters would not, and would amount to piracy. What I'd like to see is people adopting the work of others... say, one system for mass combat, and either updating it or patching it to make it better either overall or for their specific purposes. (Mass combat in Dark Sun might use a slightly patched version of a theoretical OGC Mass Combat system.) What I'm bugged by is the duplication of rules and sorting out which ones are better. One month it was all ships and maritime books being published, another it was all mass combat being talked about, now it's races, it seems, etc. etc. In the midst of all this overlap, there are differing versions of the same concepts expressed in rules... Some are good, others... not so. Monte CooK and Mike Mearls stand out as good rules engineers, and I now buy their stuff because of this. It would be a benefit if Company X could use Monte Cook's "d20 Cooking Rules" and credit Monte with it. People would see the work of good rules engineers and it might allow for greater exposure. This crosspollination would be a good thing. For critical rules chunks there could be a common ground, a common language, and an OGC site devoted to this moral/business stance might be a good thing. VRYLAKOS [/QUOTE]

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