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<blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 4037357" data-attributes="member: 20239">The thing to remember is that the rules people have access to through the SRD are OGC and to use them or make derivatives of them requires the OGL.&nbsp; People retain copyrights to their OGC, but if their OGC was, in itself, derived from OGC (for example, if your prestige class uses the Fortitude/Reflex/Will saving throw system in the SRD) then they need to use the OGL in their product every time they publish that prestige class.&nbsp; In other words, you retain copyrights to your work, but the definition of &quot;your work&quot; is muddied by the use of OGC as a base for creating new stuff.So if the GSL stipulates a product published with it cannot also use the OGL, then you have to strip out everything in your product that is derived from the 3.5 SRD and only use 1) that stuff that is wholly your own creation; and 2) stuff the GSL allows access to.&nbsp; If the GSL allows you to list Fort, Reflex and Will save totals for NPCs, but doesn't allow you to print Fort, Reflex and Will save progressions for all levels of a new prestige class, you cannot port those rules in from the 3.5 SRD without using the OGL, even if you previously published the same class with those save progressions in an earlier work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ourph, post: 4037357, member: 20239"] The thing to remember is that the rules people have access to through the SRD are OGC and to use them or make derivatives of them requires the OGL. People retain copyrights to their OGC, but if their OGC was, in itself, derived from OGC (for example, if your prestige class uses the Fortitude/Reflex/Will saving throw system in the SRD) then they need to use the OGL in their product every time they publish that prestige class. In other words, you retain copyrights to your work, but the definition of "your work" is muddied by the use of OGC as a base for creating new stuff. So if the GSL stipulates a product published with it cannot also use the OGL, then you have to strip out everything in your product that is derived from the 3.5 SRD and only use 1) that stuff that is wholly your own creation; and 2) stuff the GSL allows access to. If the GSL allows you to list Fort, Reflex and Will save totals for NPCs, but doesn't allow you to print Fort, Reflex and Will save [U]progressions[/U] for all levels of a new prestige class, you cannot port those rules in from the 3.5 SRD without using the OGL, even if you previously published the same class with those save progressions in an earlier work. [/QUOTE]

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