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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 1427136" data-attributes="member: 94">The OGL supercedes normal copyright law-- which, by the way, does not apply to "processes" (such as the rules of a game-- though this point is under much debate). The purpose of the OGL is to supplant normal copyright law to protect game rules. You relinquish certain protections of normal copyrights when you use the OGL.You must understand that 3rd party publishers are both unwilling to risk even a hint of trouble, and respectful of your Open Content declarations.It's not really a trademark issue. It is a mechanics issue. If the mechanics of FoB are Open, other publishers can use them. If those mechanics are not Open, we cannot.That's understandable, but unfortunately it is inconsistent with the Open Gaming License.After all, even WOTC has had large portions of their own Open Content (the SRD) reprinted, verbatim, repackaged and resold. That is the purpose of Open Content. Simply one of the risks that must be assumed when you enter under the OGL, and use the SRD yourself. If it were not for the SRD and the OGL, there would be no Fields of Blood.You need to ask yourself a couple of honest questions.1) Are the rules for Realm Management and Battle derived from Open Content (the SRD)?2) If so, by what rationale can you declare that they are not Open Content?Wulf</blockquote>