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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jarf" data-source="post: 1525802" data-attributes="member: 19117">Sure, I've read some of The Sigil's posts, but that doesn't mean I have to agree with him.  I'm really not trying to argue a point here, anyway (I hope I've made that clear in previous posts); I'm just trying to express my point of view as a small publisher/author, not ram my point of view down anyone's throat.  The posts within this thread are interesting with predominately rational and well thought-out arguments from both sides. Believe it or not, these discussions may influence some of what we do - for example, based on feedback (or information gleaned) from discussions like this one, we may be more inclined to offer sections of our products as on-line OGC once the initial run has turned a profit.  Monsters, skills, feats, things like that. This is all off-topic from the original point of the thread, anyway <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> .  I still haven't figured out if the U.A. SRD is on-line or not... To address your first point last: I realize OGL allows people to copy and give away the open content.  The "Ultimate" guides from Mongoose are a good example of a publisher taking advantage of this.  But - those guides contain bits and pieces of other works, not large chunks of them.  I personally wouldn't copy and post the entirity of someone else's product (especially one that still has available stock) because I know how much effort (and, more to the point, money) it takes to actually produce and distribute a printed game supplement - kind of like the "priceless" credit card commercials, once you finish.  That said, I realize some people are going to take advantage of the OGL to strip out OGC.  That is their perogative, and I understand that completely. UA seems like an odd-case anyway - seems like half of the thing is just ripped out of Call of Cthulhu, or d20 Star Wars, or d20 Modern, or even other publisher's works. If you don't agree with what I'm saying, that's fine with me.  It is, after all, a free country (more or less).</blockquote>

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