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<blockquote data-quote="osarusan" data-source="post: 2175392" data-attributes="member: 13950"><p>Hi, I've read through the FAQs and the SRD and the OGL, but I still have a few questions before I start working on anything that could be published. I've done some research on e-publishing, but still I've got no experience and would be vulnerable to making some mistakes. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, to get to the chase:</p><p></p><p>I'm planning on writing up some new rules in the future for my game, and I figured why not publish them too, if they turn out alright. Since it contains character creation and leveling rules, I believe that forces me to publish using OGL, instead of d20, correct?</p><p></p><p>I basically want to publish alternate rules for the core classes, including levelling. Since that includes derivative information from the SRD, that means that all of the derived material must also be OGC, correct? On the Wizard's FAQ, it says that one could theoretically publish the whole SRD and sell it legally, so I'm pretty sure it's OK for me to publish this derived work.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, there are tons of threads on "advice for new publishers" so I won't ask for any extra general advice, but if anyone who is familiar with publishing could answer these questions (and perhaps give advice on something I've overlooked), I would be very grateful.</p><p></p><p>Thanks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="osarusan, post: 2175392, member: 13950"] Hi, I've read through the FAQs and the SRD and the OGL, but I still have a few questions before I start working on anything that could be published. I've done some research on e-publishing, but still I've got no experience and would be vulnerable to making some mistakes. Anyway, to get to the chase: I'm planning on writing up some new rules in the future for my game, and I figured why not publish them too, if they turn out alright. Since it contains character creation and leveling rules, I believe that forces me to publish using OGL, instead of d20, correct? I basically want to publish alternate rules for the core classes, including levelling. Since that includes derivative information from the SRD, that means that all of the derived material must also be OGC, correct? On the Wizard's FAQ, it says that one could theoretically publish the whole SRD and sell it legally, so I'm pretty sure it's OK for me to publish this derived work. Anyway, there are tons of threads on "advice for new publishers" so I won't ask for any extra general advice, but if anyone who is familiar with publishing could answer these questions (and perhaps give advice on something I've overlooked), I would be very grateful. Thanks :) [/QUOTE]
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