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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 1270462" data-attributes="member: 70">IANAL.No, not in the sense you're looking for.&nbsp; Carrying your analogy a little further, if WotC had included the phrase &quot;The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog&quot; you could write anything you chose and call it &quot;material from the SRD&quot; because you're using the same letters.&nbsp; Well, context matters, for one thing.&nbsp; At the very least, you can't redefine &quot;bit&quot;, since what's really important isn't the word, but the concept it defines.I'm not sure I can put this in really clear language, and I'm not sure there's a really good answer.The SRD defines a set of rules.&nbsp; Those rules are OGC.&nbsp; Its pretty well accepted now that items built using that ruleset (feats, spells, races, monsters) is OGC.&nbsp; What's unclear is whether or not rules added onto that ruleset that utilize the underlying premise of d20 (roll 1d20.&nbsp; Add modifiers.&nbsp; Determine result based upon total.&nbsp; IE, MCAU's spell templates) is OGC or not.&nbsp; WotC has not, to my knowledge, clarified the issue.&nbsp; A few publishers skirt the thin edge of civility by keeping their Declarations of Open Game Content as vague as possible, typically using exactly that phrasing (material that also appears in the SRD is OGC, material that does not is not).Unless you want to post another example, I don't think I can go any further.&nbsp; Publishers use the phrasing precisely because it is unclear, and they can imply that they can cause you legal difficulties if you use something they want to protect.CheersNell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 1270462, member: 70"] IANAL. No, not in the sense you're looking for. Carrying your analogy a little further, if WotC had included the phrase "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" you could write anything you chose and call it "material from the SRD" because you're using the same letters. Well, context matters, for one thing. At the very least, you can't redefine "bit", since what's really important isn't the word, but the concept it defines. I'm not sure I can put this in really clear language, and I'm not sure there's a really good answer. The SRD defines a set of rules. Those rules are OGC. Its pretty well accepted now that items built using that ruleset (feats, spells, races, monsters) is OGC. What's unclear is whether or not rules added onto that ruleset that utilize the underlying premise of d20 (roll 1d20. Add modifiers. Determine result based upon total. IE, MCAU's spell templates) is OGC or not. WotC has not, to my knowledge, clarified the issue. A few publishers skirt the thin edge of civility by keeping their Declarations of Open Game Content as vague as possible, typically using exactly that phrasing (material that also appears in the SRD is OGC, material that does not is not). Unless you want to post another example, I don't think I can go any further. Publishers use the phrasing precisely because it is unclear, and they can imply that they can cause you legal difficulties if you use something they want to protect. Cheers Nell. [/QUOTE]

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