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<blockquote data-quote="Sammael" data-source="post: 1756363" data-attributes="member: 4475"><p>Well, I've posted a link to the document on the WotC boards in the past, and never had a mod react to a it, but I understand your decision. </p><p></p><p>However, I'd be grateful if you could point out exactly which stuff, other than possibly FR racial modifiers (many of which are changed), is copyrighted? Many things in the document have sidenotes that mention "see book ABC page XX." Stuff like domains for FR deities are available on a large number of websites, and are only present in the document because I've made changes to them. Other things, like weapon group proficiencies, I wrote long before I bought Unearthed Arcana (although I may have clarified the language a bit after reading it).</p><p></p><p>The only possibly problematic OGL thing (in retrospect) could be the 1-page summary of psychic rules from Green Ronin's Psychic's Handbook (and the summary is so brief that it is basically impossible to do anything with it unless you have access to the said rulebook). Now, if I placed an OGL at the end of the document, would it cover that part?</p><p></p><p>At any rate, I'm not confrontational, just curious. Lots of websites have house rules for "copyrighted" material, and I don't see WotC pursuing them for it. In fact, there is at least one site that gets mentioned on the news here quite frequently that has a bunch of FR-related house rules. Would it be better (if not exactly "legal") if I converted my document into HTML and made a site out of it, and then posted a link to the site in general (rather than a page containing the rules)?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sammael, post: 1756363, member: 4475"] Well, I've posted a link to the document on the WotC boards in the past, and never had a mod react to a it, but I understand your decision. However, I'd be grateful if you could point out exactly which stuff, other than possibly FR racial modifiers (many of which are changed), is copyrighted? Many things in the document have sidenotes that mention "see book ABC page XX." Stuff like domains for FR deities are available on a large number of websites, and are only present in the document because I've made changes to them. Other things, like weapon group proficiencies, I wrote long before I bought Unearthed Arcana (although I may have clarified the language a bit after reading it). The only possibly problematic OGL thing (in retrospect) could be the 1-page summary of psychic rules from Green Ronin's Psychic's Handbook (and the summary is so brief that it is basically impossible to do anything with it unless you have access to the said rulebook). Now, if I placed an OGL at the end of the document, would it cover that part? At any rate, I'm not confrontational, just curious. Lots of websites have house rules for "copyrighted" material, and I don't see WotC pursuing them for it. In fact, there is at least one site that gets mentioned on the news here quite frequently that has a bunch of FR-related house rules. Would it be better (if not exactly "legal") if I converted my document into HTML and made a site out of it, and then posted a link to the site in general (rather than a page containing the rules)? [/QUOTE]
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