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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6798587" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>I don't particularly agree with this. Pushing the envelope is a good thing, since that's how we got stuff like OSRIC, which lead to an Old School Renaissance that, in turn, helped to shape attitudes that themselves helped to shape 5E.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm pretty sure that's what I said, what with mentioning that so long as you didn't go word-for-word the same you were probably fine. Heck, you could use the flavor text description for wood elves (sparse as it is) as a race from the <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/elf.htm#woodElf" target="_blank">3.5 SRD</a> - though you'd still need to make sure the delineation of their game rules wasn't a cut-and-paste of what's in the 5E PHB - so long as you made sure to credit both SRDs in your Section 15.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In all honesty, I don't think that's the key question at all. In fact, I find that to be the least important question that could possibly be asked. It implies that there needs to be some sort of good reason to do something. Maybe when you're cloning dinosaurs you should be more concerned with if you should than if you could, but I don't find any similar sort of impetus for wondering about whether or not something should be tried when it comes to pushing the limits of the OGL (so long as you don't violate the terms of the license, of course). </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, I disagree with this. The proliferation of "almost-like's" when trying to recreate something that isn't Open strikes me as something that causes more confusion than anything else, since you have instances of something that's very similar to what's in the PHB but technically using different rules, which are easily forgotten and lead to questions of "wait, are we using what's in the PHB, or this?" Far better to just recreate the original material if that can be done within the bounds of what's Open Game Content.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 6798587, member: 8461"] I don't particularly agree with this. Pushing the envelope is a good thing, since that's how we got stuff like OSRIC, which lead to an Old School Renaissance that, in turn, helped to shape attitudes that themselves helped to shape 5E. I'm pretty sure that's what I said, what with mentioning that so long as you didn't go word-for-word the same you were probably fine. Heck, you could use the flavor text description for wood elves (sparse as it is) as a race from the [url=http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/elf.htm#woodElf]3.5 SRD[/url] - though you'd still need to make sure the delineation of their game rules wasn't a cut-and-paste of what's in the 5E PHB - so long as you made sure to credit both SRDs in your Section 15. In all honesty, I don't think that's the key question at all. In fact, I find that to be the least important question that could possibly be asked. It implies that there needs to be some sort of good reason to do something. Maybe when you're cloning dinosaurs you should be more concerned with if you should than if you could, but I don't find any similar sort of impetus for wondering about whether or not something should be tried when it comes to pushing the limits of the OGL (so long as you don't violate the terms of the license, of course). Again, I disagree with this. The proliferation of "almost-like's" when trying to recreate something that isn't Open strikes me as something that causes more confusion than anything else, since you have instances of something that's very similar to what's in the PHB but technically using different rules, which are easily forgotten and lead to questions of "wait, are we using what's in the PHB, or this?" Far better to just recreate the original material if that can be done within the bounds of what's Open Game Content. [/QUOTE]
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