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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1823281" data-attributes="member: 172">That's really a question for you to answer.I don't make it a habit to collect and re-release material for free. But I will say this much: that would make it much less likely that I would buy your products. And to make it clear, I just bought one last night, and think 4 or so over the last few weeks, so I'm not speak posteriorly here.I don't know how broadly this applies, but for me, the promise of the OGL is the promise never to worry about "Rob Repp-ism" again. I feel that when I create something for my campaign, I should be free to talk about it, to show people it, and so forth. "Crippled OGC" annoy me to the point I consider it barely tolerable. That would likely push me over the edge. (After all, if I felt I HAD to republish a character made with crippled OGC, I could cipher out the crippled sections. But if I had to republished closed content, I'd have to rewrite it from scratch.) (And yes, that does mean if I have a choice between using closed books by WotC and Kenzer, or a book with open content, all else being equal, I'll use the OGL book.)Rob Repp acting as a representative of TSR put a certain chill through the early era of D&D on the net.The other half of the promise of the OGL to me is the idea of the community building a shared body of work that we all can draw from, but that we give something back to that shared body of work. To me, if you are taking and not giving back, you are sort of freeloading. So there you have it. You have you vision of what's not ethical. There's mine.(That said, isn't that technically against the terms of the d20 system trademark license, which requires you to have 5% OGC?)I think that the proof would be in the pudding. I don't think you should do it, for reasons already explained. If someone actually starts strip mining your material and you actually start losing sales, then I would admit you have a case based on your economic situation (but I would still stop buying your stuff.) I would also agree that such a person doing that would be reprehensible, even if not criminal. But I think that, making the wild assumption that an appreciable amount of computer-centered gamers like myself share my views on OGC, making such a move preemptively would hurt your sales.</blockquote>

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