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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tyrant" data-source="post: 854072" data-attributes="member: 8916">One of the last times this came up some of the publishers mentioned that they arent interested in "getting on board" because they have no time and little financial interest in going back through and designating their Open Content.  I BELIEVE (meaning I could be misremembering) that Orcus (Clark from Necromancer) said they might also risk exposing themselves to lawsuits from 3rd party people who used the self-proclaimed OGC in good faith and were ultimately slapped with a C&D.For these reasons and more I think this plan will not succeed as it was originally suggested.  Someone has to take responsibility for designating the Open Game Content.  That is probably why so many section 15s are so vague to begin with.At the same time, I question the value of a system the merely provides an index of who has submitted what kind of content.  Every book has feats and prestige classes, so how do you classify and distinguish content in a meaningful way? And what do you do when a title is OOP? Will publishers and would-be writers buy books on the offchance it has the reference material thats useful to them? What if it doesnt? I guess Im just saying an index also leaves questions to be answered.For a while I considered opening an online game store, and thought that publishing parts of a company's OGC from their product might be a possible hook to lure people to the site.  One thing I thought about doing was something like this...<a href="http://www.hugeogre.com/ogc_info.php?products_id=35" target="_blank">http://www.hugeogre.com/ogc_info.php?products_id=35</a> This lists a single feat from author Erik Mona's Armies of the Abyss by Green Ronin.I believe that this satisfies the requirement of the license without making the thing too unwieldy.  I originally had a link that displayed the entire license instead of just the section 15, but it made for long, obscurred pages...I also created a listing that allows you to sort by the name, type of feat, publisher, and book title where the OGC first appeared.The OGC is stored in a MySQL database, crossreferenced to the product it originally appeared in, and linked to a store by product.   The section 15 as it appears in the original book is also stored in the db, and the huge ogre website blurb (which Im pretty sure is required since I am in effect "republishing" the OGC).End result? Huge Ogre is not going anywhere, and I would be happy to donate it to the cause if thats what it takes.  The website, the URL, a new name (Open Gaming Resource Emporium). You still need a way to make money to sustain the site though. Perhaps if someone could get the publishers to buy into the system as a marketing mechanism, where links to OGC linked back to a preferred store where the published sold the original book or something. Or if you sold banners (preferably to game companies and not to Netzero or that DVDclub, lol)Anyway, Hunger forces me to close this post, probably when I should have gone back and reread it.Eric PriceDragon Scale Counters, LLC<a href="http://www.dragonscalecounters.com" target="_blank">http://www.dragonscalecounters.com</a></blockquote>

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