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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6994830" data-attributes="member: 4937">I'd have to think about the legality of sharing it.&nbsp; Plagiarism never was a concern in creating it, and although almost everything I borrowed has been transformed, there are going to be clear sources I'm working from in some cases.&nbsp; I'd hate to get a cease and desist on my own house rules.&nbsp; I've shared bits and pieces of it before on EnWorld, but only content that I was 100% sure I was sole author of.&nbsp; Also, I'm pretty sure I can't copy from or modify the SRD without following a bunch of OGL rules I've never paid attention.&nbsp; Also, I'd really not be pleased to find copies of my rules loose in the wild in the hands of strangers.&nbsp; While I'm thinking about this, I'd say the rules are 50% a blend of the 3.0 and 3.5 SRDs (which his how the project got started) tweaked based on my own playtesting, 25% purely original content to fill gaps in the rules, and 25% content adopted from a variety of 3rd party sources that I thought superior (for my game) to the WotC content.&nbsp; For example, Green Ronin's Shaman replaces the core Druid for a variety of reasons.&nbsp; However, if you read the GR Shaman book it's very clear that they were trying to make sure that Shaman had it's own niche that didn't overlap with Druid, whereas my variant has killed the Druid and taken its stuff, and so no longer has that as a issue (largely changing the classes core spell list).&nbsp; But can I share my rules with you, or would Green Ronin be (rightly) upset that you could then play something very like their Shaman (IMO, an improved version) without first buying their book (which, in my defense, I did)?&nbsp;&nbsp; There are a lot of complexities like that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6994830, member: 4937"] I'd have to think about the legality of sharing it. Plagiarism never was a concern in creating it, and although almost everything I borrowed has been transformed, there are going to be clear sources I'm working from in some cases. I'd hate to get a cease and desist on my own house rules. I've shared bits and pieces of it before on EnWorld, but only content that I was 100% sure I was sole author of. Also, I'm pretty sure I can't copy from or modify the SRD without following a bunch of OGL rules I've never paid attention. Also, I'd really not be pleased to find copies of my rules loose in the wild in the hands of strangers. While I'm thinking about this, I'd say the rules are 50% a blend of the 3.0 and 3.5 SRDs (which his how the project got started) tweaked based on my own playtesting, 25% purely original content to fill gaps in the rules, and 25% content adopted from a variety of 3rd party sources that I thought superior (for my game) to the WotC content. For example, Green Ronin's Shaman replaces the core Druid for a variety of reasons. However, if you read the GR Shaman book it's very clear that they were trying to make sure that Shaman had it's own niche that didn't overlap with Druid, whereas my variant has killed the Druid and taken its stuff, and so no longer has that as a issue (largely changing the classes core spell list). But can I share my rules with you, or would Green Ronin be (rightly) upset that you could then play something very like their Shaman (IMO, an improved version) without first buying their book (which, in my defense, I did)? There are a lot of complexities like that. [/QUOTE]

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