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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 2810093" data-attributes="member: 957">You know, when I think of the places where people have tried to make new machanics and call them PI.  Or used PI names to cover OGC, creating the dis-incentive as BardStephenFox described.  I think those are pretty lame things to do.Regardless of the legal minutia, (and I think this is a tempest in a really small teapot) to lump this practice in with those is a real shame.  Wulf had a idea.  A really good idea.  He has put it out there and said that anyone else if free to use his idea as part of Open Gaming.  That people are going to start crying (not you DanMcS or madelf) over the need to do a little typing in exchange for Wulf being protected from some scumbag mass posting his thoughts elsewhere and thus completely removing any motive for him to sahre any future ideas with us is just sad.May I ask you, do you agree that a wiki would motivate Phil Reed, Wulf, and other to stop publishing?  Would doing something that causes them to stop be supportive of the game we know and love?  If the options are A)go to the effort of putting out material and then see that effort be removed of all potential for return on the investment of time or B)see material that has a buffer to protect its value be produced and see this continue into the future, then I know exactly which one of those options REALLY supports the game.  If anyone is going to claim that doing it for a profit is against the spirit, then I'd encourage them to use only free product in their games.  I assure you, your crap to gems ratio is going to go through the roof.</blockquote>

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