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<blockquote data-quote="Myrdin Potter" data-source="post: 8894245" data-attributes="member: 6843593">Copyright gets down to exact words being used in most of the cases I have seen. There are only so many plot ideas at a top level. So many novels have the same basic plot and probably the same structure. The details of how it is done becomes the story and using the same words is violating copyright.For a game, if mechanics are not subject to copyright, then that line of where does the expression of the mechanic cross into copyright cross the line the the question that, as noted above, that WoTC really does not want answered.I think that Matt Finch had an almost perfect example in his live stream. If I had a list of magic spells and the name of each exactly matched D&amp;D and were in the same order, well that is a pattern of same words that I would get worried it crosses the line. Even if the individual spell names are clean. Like a magic missile is a self contained description and I doubt it is subject to copyright on a stand alone basis.I honestly think that if WoTC tested it, a lot of what they have been threatening with may be more a threat of a lawsuit and those costs than an actual victory for them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Myrdin Potter, post: 8894245, member: 6843593"] Copyright gets down to exact words being used in most of the cases I have seen. There are only so many plot ideas at a top level. So many novels have the same basic plot and probably the same structure. The details of how it is done becomes the story and using the same words is violating copyright. For a game, if mechanics are not subject to copyright, then that line of where does the expression of the mechanic cross into copyright cross the line the the question that, as noted above, that WoTC really does not want answered. I think that Matt Finch had an almost perfect example in his live stream. If I had a list of magic spells and the name of each exactly matched D&D and were in the same order, well that is a pattern of same words that I would get worried it crosses the line. Even if the individual spell names are clean. Like a magic missile is a self contained description and I doubt it is subject to copyright on a stand alone basis. I honestly think that if WoTC tested it, a lot of what they have been threatening with may be more a threat of a lawsuit and those costs than an actual victory for them. [/QUOTE]

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