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<blockquote data-quote="danzig138" data-source="post: 784804" data-attributes="member: 3595">The feats in the Player's Handbook are not open content. The feats in the SRD are open content. Feats in other companies books are more thna likely open content, assuming they followed the rules, but the names and descriptive text for those feats might not be open. For example, say ABC Corp has released the following feat: &nbsp;Generic FeatThis feat allows you to do something outside the normal rules of the game system. Prerequisites: Any other feat.Benefit: You can do something cool. Normal: Normally, a character without this feat cannot do something cool. Now if ABC Corp has released the entire feat as open content, then you could simply C&amp;P the whole thing for your use. But maybe ABC wants to keep the name and description closed, in which case, only the following part of the feat would be open content (By default since it derive from mechanics found in the SRD)Prerequisites: Any other feat.Benefit: You can do something cool. Normal: Normally, a character without this feat cannot do something cool. You could still use this, but you would have to provide a new name and descriptive text.To be completely sure as to what is and isn't open content in a third party prduct, you should probably contact the publisher of the product. IANAL.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="danzig138, post: 784804, member: 3595"] The feats in the Player's Handbook are [I]not[/I] open content. The feats in the SRD [I]are[/I] open content. Feats in other companies books are more thna likely open content, assuming they followed the rules, but the names and descriptive text for those feats might not be open. For example, say ABC Corp has released the following feat: [B]Generic Feat This feat allows you to do something outside the normal rules of the game system. Prerequisites: Any other feat. Benefit: You can do something cool. Normal: Normally, a character without this feat cannot do something cool. [/B] Now if ABC Corp has released the entire feat as open content, then you could simply C&P the whole thing for your use. But maybe ABC wants to keep the name and description closed, in which case, only the following part of the feat would be open content (By default since it derive from mechanics found in the SRD) [B]Prerequisites: Any other feat. Benefit: You can do something cool. Normal: Normally, a character without this feat cannot do something cool. [/B] You could still use this, but you would have to provide a new name and descriptive text.To be completely sure as to what is and isn't open content in a third party prduct, you should probably contact the publisher of the product. IANAL. [/QUOTE]

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