Have your seen an TTRPG license that is open for modules?

[gamerprinter]

I always use the SRD included in full as the last page, even putting an excerpt on the credits page. I've only ever published for Pathfinder and Starfinder as third party, so I rely on the SRD.

 

[kenada]

When I say open for modules, I mean that you want to retain rights to the TTRPG Core rulebooks, cause that is your baby.

But you want anyone to be able to run with using your world, free license to create content whether that is Modules or Settings books etc.

Have you seen that kind of license?

I’ll second (third?) the OGL. If there’s something you don’t want to share, you can declare it Product Identity. I’ve seen games do that even for mechanics and not just setting stuff (e.g., Pugmire, Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy genre rules).

 

[gamerprinter]

For my Gamemaster's Guide to Kaidan supplement, which included some of the races that weren't previously published including Kitsune. and we used the mechanics for an existing kitsune build, by a different publisher (whom we got permission to use), and we added his company at the top of the SRD, as included resources - where Dungeons and Dragons/Paizo/Pathfinder is listed, with comma and his company, following the our product's copyright line at the top. (It's in the product preview page in the link above, but too small to read it.)

 

[aramis erak]

When I say open for modules, I mean that you want to retain rights to the TTRPG Core rulebooks, cause that is your baby.

But you want anyone to be able to run with using your world, free license to create content whether that is Modules or Settings books etc.

Have you seen that kind of license?

thanks!

As noted by others, the Wizards OGL puts whatever you declare open content into public use.

But I suspect that's not what you want.

Greg Porter (d/b/a Blacksburg Tactical Research Center, BTRC) had his lawyers draft an open supplement license. It allows adding to, but not using in full, your content. If you ask him, he's likely to let you use it.

It's far less nuclear an option than the Wizards OGL.

There also are...

• GNU Free Document License (which is less protective than the Wizards OGL)
• Creative Commons (which is a semi-confusing set of options, but which, when set up right, allows picking just what level

 

[cavetroll]

Greg Porter (d/b/a Blacksburg Tactical Research Center, BTRC) had his lawyers draft an open supplement license. It allows adding to, but not using in full, your content. If you ask him, he's likely to let you use it.

A copy left license, yes that looks really good, thanks for the idea, I'll make note for later, great.