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<blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 3865045" data-attributes="member: 7240">Actually, I think it's pretty analogous to the systems I was using.In religion, there are a few core canonical texts; orbiting around them are respected declarations that are quasi-canonical -- think Mormonism's statement on the family or Catholicism's Humanae Vitae; at the next orbit out are the opinions of respected individuals like Talmage's Jesus the Christ or St. Augustine's City of God; and so on. In law, similarly, there are the canonical texts like the Constitution; the next orbit out there are things like the Federalist Papers; and so on. Large systems with a central canon and concentric circles of quasi-canonical and authoritative documents are precisely analogous to the RPG situation you describe.If this isn't going on in D&amp;D, I'm kind of baffled by the differences between the OGL and D20 licenses or the application of the term &quot;core.&quot;As I was saying before, a continuum-based approach is more appropriate here and avoids these kinds of binaries. In a continuum-based model, these variants are a few inches along on the miles-long path that terminates with the nitrous and the finger paint.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fusangite, post: 3865045, member: 7240"] Actually, I think it's pretty analogous to the systems I was using. In religion, there are a few core canonical texts; orbiting around them are respected declarations that are quasi-canonical -- think Mormonism's statement on the family or Catholicism's [i]Humanae Vitae[/i]; at the next orbit out are the opinions of respected individuals like Talmage's [i]Jesus the Christ[/i] or St. Augustine's [i]City of God[/i]; and so on. In law, similarly, there are the canonical texts like the Constitution; the next orbit out there are things like the Federalist Papers; and so on. Large systems with a central canon and concentric circles of quasi-canonical and authoritative documents are precisely analogous to the RPG situation you describe.If this isn't going on in D&D, I'm kind of baffled by the differences between the OGL and D20 licenses or the application of the term "core."As I was saying before, a continuum-based approach is more appropriate here and avoids these kinds of binaries. In a continuum-based model, these variants are a few inches along on the miles-long path that terminates with the nitrous and the finger paint. [/QUOTE]

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