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<blockquote data-quote="Michael O'Brien" data-source="post: 7959383" data-attributes="member: 6807727"><p>The BRP OGL is open to all who want to use it to publish their own settings, games, and unique ideas using the BRP system. Chaosium has walled off certain rules and certain settings, but if you have something you want to publish that Chaosium isn't already doing, you can. Without paying royalties, without Chaosium having residual rights. And you get to call it BRP. If that doesn't mean much to you, no worries don't use it.</p><p></p><p>So why is the BRP OGL different from the WotC OGL? Largely because Chaosium's business model is different to WotC's. Chaosium's settings are what are valuable to the company - the cosmology, entities, storylines, etc. of RuneQuest, Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon, etc. Some rules tie directly into these settings - e.g. the Runes of RuneQuest, or the Sanity mechanic of Call of Cthulhu. Chaosium has removed those mechanics that are uniquely tied to a given setting (or with a specific edition of a game) but let you do whatever you want with the rest.</p><p></p><p></p><p>If you want to make a game off Chaosium's BRP engine and call it that, now you can. In your own use of the SRD, you are welcome to add anything you want to it – as long as you avoid Prohibited Content (and don't violate others' copyright, obviously). You get to call it BRP and use the logo. If this is not a consideration for you, by all means go ahead and use something else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael O'Brien, post: 7959383, member: 6807727"] The BRP OGL is open to all who want to use it to publish their own settings, games, and unique ideas using the BRP system. Chaosium has walled off certain rules and certain settings, but if you have something you want to publish that Chaosium isn't already doing, you can. Without paying royalties, without Chaosium having residual rights. And you get to call it BRP. If that doesn't mean much to you, no worries don't use it. So why is the BRP OGL different from the WotC OGL? Largely because Chaosium's business model is different to WotC's. Chaosium's settings are what are valuable to the company - the cosmology, entities, storylines, etc. of RuneQuest, Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon, etc. Some rules tie directly into these settings - e.g. the Runes of RuneQuest, or the Sanity mechanic of Call of Cthulhu. Chaosium has removed those mechanics that are uniquely tied to a given setting (or with a specific edition of a game) but let you do whatever you want with the rest. If you want to make a game off Chaosium's BRP engine and call it that, now you can. In your own use of the SRD, you are welcome to add anything you want to it – as long as you avoid Prohibited Content (and don't violate others' copyright, obviously). You get to call it BRP and use the logo. If this is not a consideration for you, by all means go ahead and use something else. [/QUOTE]
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