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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samothdm" data-source="post: 1491718" data-attributes="member: 5473">A potential selling point for whom?  For a publisher who wishes to use those specific rules in a product that he is writing, yes.I fail to see how a book having OGC is a selling point for a non-publisher customer.  It's irrelevant.  Good material (or "cool toys", as worded above) is good material, whether it's open or not open.  If it's good, it will get used in-game.  Period.(With the noted exception of a small percentage of extremists who refuse to buy any non-OGC).  So, then, for a non-publisher, the only reason that OGC is a "selling point" would be, "Hey, I can transcribe this entire book and post it for free."  And, despite people who seem to think that there is no "spirit of the law", the person who transcribes and posts an entire book of OGC for free is past the boundaries of using OGC in good faith.  I'll put it another way:  Anybody who is claiming that it's perfectably acceptable to copy and post the entire OGC portions of UA for free should also never, ever, complain about getting a speeding ticket, especially if they are only going 5 miles over the speed limit on an open country road with no other cars in site.It comes down to common sense, people.  No one is asking you not to use open content from UA in your games, because they can't do that.  It's open.  What they're asking is to be reasonable and not provide for free what people should be willing to pay $24.46 to get on Amazon.  The argument that having it in a format that is easily reusable makes sense from a publisher standpoint, but then only publishers should be able to request it in that format from WotC.  And, quite honestly, I wouldn't see the need for a publisher to have the entire book in PDF/RTF format, but only the specific section that they were referencing.To be put another way, take a class, feat, PrC, template, monster, or spell (or multiples of the same) and put them in your own book.  That's a perfectly reasonable use of OGC.Having the entire OGC portions of the book posted for free online does not seem reasonable to me.</blockquote>

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