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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JBowtie" data-source="post: 1298679" data-attributes="member: 1810">I'm doing something similar with my campaign setting.  I'm integrating a lot of disparate OGC since my stack of 'essential books' has topped 50; most of them, of course, I only use a subset of rules from.  For example, I only use chapter 11 from a 320-page book - but it has a core class in that chapter essential to my campaign world.So my approach is that there will be three versions, possibly bundled together.The kitchen sink version will have everything - it will be a complete OGL book with all the classes, spells, rules, etc.  This is for the DM who doesn't want to lug around/cross-reference several dozen books.The new stuff only version will have just the new rules and flavor text appropriate to the setting.  This is for the guy who doesn't mind doing the work and owns just as many books as I do; he'll have to look at section 15 to figure out just which books are needed.The bare-bones version will be just that - altered mechanics only and summary  charts/reference cards.  Stuff that usually ends up on a DM screen.  Probably everyone will use this if only to avoid looking things up.I mean, that's the nice thing about PDF publishing, right?  You can trivially create multiple versions.  I've seen plenty of variations on this theme; black and white versus color, on-screen versus printable, art vs no art, 3.0 vs 3.5, etc.  One PDF product I bought had four different versions in a single download.</blockquote>

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