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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8271549" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>It was a bit stronger than that... They Sue Regularly wasn't just some sort of myth. You can clearly publish a PbtA-based game, even a hack on some specific one, without any problem. TSR was not cool with that. There certainly were 'supplements' published by 3PPs, like Arduin Grimoire and Claw Law, that added features onto D&amp;D. NOBODY was allowed to hack D&amp;D itself and produce variant games! ICE eventually created an entirely separate RPG, Rolemaster, to be the home for their variants of D&amp;D rules. AD&amp;D was exactly, and ONLY, what Gary wanted it to be. You could add a new class, or a variant of combat rules, or something like that, but you couldn't really tinker with the way the game worked in an overall sense, because you would need to reproduce a bunch of it to explain that. Nowadays with OGL and CC licenses and so much being 'out there' it is quite possible to do it, and even WotC has learned to go with the flow. It just wasn't like that back in the day.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8271549, member: 82106"] It was a bit stronger than that... They Sue Regularly wasn't just some sort of myth. You can clearly publish a PbtA-based game, even a hack on some specific one, without any problem. TSR was not cool with that. There certainly were 'supplements' published by 3PPs, like Arduin Grimoire and Claw Law, that added features onto D&D. NOBODY was allowed to hack D&D itself and produce variant games! ICE eventually created an entirely separate RPG, Rolemaster, to be the home for their variants of D&D rules. AD&D was exactly, and ONLY, what Gary wanted it to be. You could add a new class, or a variant of combat rules, or something like that, but you couldn't really tinker with the way the game worked in an overall sense, because you would need to reproduce a bunch of it to explain that. Nowadays with OGL and CC licenses and so much being 'out there' it is quite possible to do it, and even WotC has learned to go with the flow. It just wasn't like that back in the day. [/QUOTE]

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