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Message: <blockquote data-quote="madelf" data-source="post: 2810057" data-attributes="member: 15415">It's true, he can't fully reproduce Ars Magica, because that would entail reproducing the text. He can't fully reproduce Grim Tales either, even under the OGL, because that would entail reproducing the text (and the text has been declared PI). In either case he can reproduce the ideas, concepts, and mechanics (without using the text), by the "completely trivial manner of re-wording things" because copyright law says so. Not because the OGL says so.He can't use OGL open content from Ars Magica, because there is no open content released under the OGL for that game. But he can still reproduce the concepts, ideas, and mechanics from Ars Magica because those are not protected by copyright. He could do the same thing with Grim Tales, by ignoring the OGL and relying on what is allowed by copyright. So using the OGL to declare mechanics (sans text) as open content is simply pointless.Quoted directly from the US Copyright website, under "WHAT IS NOT PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT?":Another bit from the US Copyright site directly addressing games:</blockquote>