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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 1920150" data-attributes="member: 725">I can understand that certain fans don't understand how the whole OGL/OGC and SRD thing works, but from publishers, especially publishers that have produced so many OGL products.Books like the Complete Warrior or the Epic Handbook are not released under the OGL and as such don't have any OGC. Just because the SRD holds similar material doesn't mean you can use material that's not in the SRD, and material shouldn't be referenced in the way as described below. Other books such as Unearthed Arcana are released under the OGL and as such contain OGC, they are NOT part of the SRD, although the SRD is released under the OGL and contains OGC.The 'proper' way to ask would be along the lines, &quot;Does the Complete Warrior OGC?&quot;, &quot;Is the Complete Warrior released under the OGL?&quot;. Something a little more 'dangerous', &quot;Has material from the Complete Warrior been added to the SRD?&quot; (but by being added to the SRD the material no longer comes from the Complete Warrior, but is now part of the SRD). There might be no distiction for most fans, but folks that use OGC from sources other then the SRD this is important because we might perpetuate the mistakes others made.I'm not saying i'm perfect in my use of the OGL, but i try, i'm just pointing out that it might be usefull if a bit clearer language was used.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 1920150, member: 725"] I can understand that certain fans don't understand how the whole OGL/OGC and SRD thing works, but from publishers, especially publishers that have produced so many OGL products. Books like the Complete Warrior or the Epic Handbook are not released under the OGL and as such don't have any OGC. Just because the SRD holds similar material doesn't mean you can use material that's not in the SRD, and material shouldn't be referenced in the way as described below. Other books such as Unearthed Arcana are released under the OGL and as such contain OGC, they are NOT part of the SRD, although the SRD is released under the OGL and contains OGC. The 'proper' way to ask would be along the lines, "Does the Complete Warrior OGC?", "Is the Complete Warrior released under the OGL?". Something a little more 'dangerous', "Has material from the Complete Warrior been added to the SRD?" (but by being added to the SRD the material no longer comes from the Complete Warrior, but is now part of the SRD). There might be no distiction for most fans, but folks that use OGC from sources other then the SRD this is important because we might perpetuate the mistakes others made. I'm not saying i'm perfect in my use of the OGL, but i try, i'm just pointing out that it might be usefull if a bit clearer language was used. [/QUOTE]

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