How I fell in and out of love with Pick and Mix in 20 minutes

[Roudi]

Technically, your Section 15 listing would already reveal the source of anything used in a Pick N' Mix. Beyond that, you could identify a source in the product description. As long as the Pick N' Mix doesn't require the original source book to be useful (something the Pick N' Mix license forbids), then you should be fine.

 

[Roudi]

Besides, since a Pick N' Mix is entirely OGC anyways, there's nothing stopping you from recompiling your Pick N' Mix releases and selling them as a full book (sans Pick N' Mix license, natch). That way you satisfy the people who want to buy the bits they like, and the folks who prefer bigger works.

Actually, I just reread the Pick N' Mix license and saw this:

You stipulate that all content, other than your company name and logo, is not released under terms of any licenses other than the Open Gaming License and the Pick N Mix license.

Does that mean that material released as Pick N' Mix must stay Pick N' Mix, and cannot be recompiled as OGC unless under the Pick N' Mix license as well? Official clairification would be welcome.

 

[Morrus]

Just as a note - the P&M products are selling.

 

[Morrus]

Actually, I just reread the Pick N' Mix license and saw this:


Does that mean that material released as Pick N' Mix must stay Pick N' Mix, and cannot be recompiled as OGC unless under the Pick N' Mix license as well? Official clairification would be welcome.

Eh? Nope! It means that the P&M product itself cannot be subject to any other license (thus you can't actually put a d20 logo on it).

You can rerelease the content in non P&M form in any way you like, as often as you like.

 

[Roudi]

Thanks, Morrus! That makes me feel much better.

 

[d20Dwarf]

Do we have to use Mr. Banana for art? I don't like the way he draws faces.

 

[Morrus]

But he's great!

 

[d20Dwarf]

But he's great!

Is P&M publishing available only to publishers established on the site?

 

[Morrus]

Is P&M publishing available only to publishers established on the site?

Well, you can't sell them anywhere else, if that's what you mean. So yes, you'd need to be on the site in order to use the license.

 

[JVisgaitis]

OK, I downloaded the license and looked it over. Just a few things that jump out at me.

1. How you can possibly include Pterra as a free font with the guidelines? Pterra is not a free font and shouldn't be distributed as such.

2. Are there going to be changes made to the section which declares that all content is open? There is no way we'll release P&M products if our artwork becomes OGC. Looking at the Indesign file that is included, there is a section that is labeled for declaration of OGC and declaration of Product Identity, but isn't that section moot since by the license everything is OGC anyway?