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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4186045" data-attributes="member: 710">Arcana Unearthed is OGL, is it not? Or am I interpreting the acronym wrong? (Arcana Evolved definitely doesn't have the d20 logo) But either way, it was not stopped by the d20 STL. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />So, here's my understanding so far: I think the GSL might no be that different from the d20-STL. The key difference at this point is that there is no OGL-material from the 4E PHB to refer to, so you can't use the OGL to re-use 4E rules. But you apparantly could still try to create 4E compatible material, as long as you don't directly state that that's what you're doing, and you don't copy any 4E rule text verbatim.It changes more if there is indeed a poison pill making it impossible to create OGL products while creating GSL products. This means that you'd have to stop using the OGL, which would suck if you want to re-use OGL material from third parties (your own material is not restricted by the OGL), or if you want to continue working both on 3E/OGL and 4E/GSL. This would for example be a problem for True20 or Paizos Pathfinder 3E/4E. We still don't know if this scenario applies. I'd see it as a worst-case scenario. But it still won't stop everyone. That you can't put the same product under both licenses should pose little problems (unless you wanted somehow re-use OGL material or dual-stat). I think at worst, you'd have to change the name of your product. (Tome of Horrors becomes The Horror Tome? Arcana Evolved becomes Evolved Arcana? And Iron Heroes becomes Heroic Irony <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).</blockquote>

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