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<blockquote data-quote="nightraven" data-source="post: 4853585" data-attributes="member: 84088"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">John OSRIC is a restatement of the rules, thus 100% percent legal (the fact that it walks talks and acts like a duck doesn't really matter…as far as I can see its never been tested in court). </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">The OGL was cleverly used along with this restatement (something WOTC didn't see coming no doubt...whoops!!! Too bad their legal team wasn't paying attention).</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">The fact that lawyers and owners of companies in the business were making statements of legality about OSRIC (casting doubt) is seriously unethical (and possibly illegal). Chanault's attorney (and wife) should have warned him not to make such doubts publicly known. A judge could see a "response to a question" by such a person as a means to an end (a smear campaign). The fact that OSRIC was designed to be used by 3rd party publishers and that TLG would be in direct competition with these 3rd parties would likely be relevant in such a case. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">In any event, the last thing WOTC would want to do is bring this to court and clarify the law in a way that was not to their favor. The impact could be massive (possibly hurting all of Hasbro its parent company). The most likely scenario would be for WOTC to offer OSRIC's owner(s) cash to make it disappear (and for all I know they have and it was turned down). </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">I believe the only stipulation is that OSRIC can't claim to be compatible with AD&D (which is the one big disadvantage of OSRIC). That's why we are seeing companies launching "1E compatible" or "1E AD&D compatible" (its more clearly AD&D related to those not clear about what OSRIC is). I think EXPR monster book is less reliant on OSRIC because they are all new monsters. Modules are much more dependent (as they allow the OGL and a widely available system to reference). </span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nightraven, post: 4853585, member: 84088"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]John OSRIC is a restatement of the rules, thus 100% percent legal (the fact that it walks talks and acts like a duck doesn't really matter…as far as I can see its never been tested in court). [/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]The OGL was cleverly used along with this restatement (something WOTC didn't see coming no doubt...whoops!!! Too bad their legal team wasn't paying attention).[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white] [/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]The fact that lawyers and owners of companies in the business were making statements of legality about OSRIC (casting doubt) is seriously unethical (and possibly illegal). Chanault's attorney (and wife) should have warned him not to make such doubts publicly known. A judge could see a "response to a question" by such a person as a means to an end (a smear campaign). The fact that OSRIC was designed to be used by 3rd party publishers and that TLG would be in direct competition with these 3rd parties would likely be relevant in such a case. [/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white] [/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]In any event, the last thing WOTC would want to do is bring this to court and clarify the law in a way that was not to their favor. The impact could be massive (possibly hurting all of Hasbro its parent company). The most likely scenario would be for WOTC to offer OSRIC's owner(s) cash to make it disappear (and for all I know they have and it was turned down). [/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white] [/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]I believe the only stipulation is that OSRIC can't claim to be compatible with AD&D (which is the one big disadvantage of OSRIC). That's why we are seeing companies launching "1E compatible" or "1E AD&D compatible" (its more clearly AD&D related to those not clear about what OSRIC is). I think EXPR monster book is less reliant on OSRIC because they are all new monsters. Modules are much more dependent (as they allow the OGL and a widely available system to reference). [/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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