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<blockquote data-quote="Big Mac" data-source="post: 4189143" data-attributes="member: 61182">I'd agree with that. Customers are looking for things that work with the &quot;3.5 SRD&quot;. Pushing the SRD (the fantasy rules) as a system name would be better than pushing the OGL (a licence) as a brand name. I think it might also be helpful to have an alternate logo for old PDF products that are compatible with the &quot;3.0 SRD&quot;.As for alternate logos, people that play d20 Modern are looking for things that work with the MSRD (I don't play any more, so don't know if there are different versions).EDIT: I wish that Louis Porter Jr. Design had said &quot;d20 System logo&quot; instead of &quot;d20 logo&quot; in their blurb. &quot;d20&quot; is the name of a 20 sided die and is not a trademark of WotC, but they seem to want to control it. If their lawyers can argue that people infer &quot;d20 System&quot; from &quot;d20&quot; they can try to claim ownership of the type of die.There is actually no game system called &quot;3.5 System&quot;, so in a legal sense I would say this logo is pretty meaningless. Now if everyone assumes that 3.5 System refers to the 3.5 SRD then people will infer a meaning for this logo, but AFAIK that isn't a trademark.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Big Mac, post: 4189143, member: 61182"] I'd agree with that. Customers are looking for things that work with the "3.5 SRD". Pushing the SRD (the fantasy rules) as a system name would be better than pushing the OGL (a licence) as a brand name. I think it might also be helpful to have an alternate logo for old PDF products that are compatible with the "3.0 SRD". As for alternate logos, people that play d20 Modern are looking for things that work with the MSRD (I don't play any more, so don't know if there are different versions). [B]EDIT:[/B] I wish that Louis Porter Jr. Design had said "d20 System logo" instead of "d20 logo" in their blurb. "d20" is the name of a 20 sided die and is not a trademark of WotC, but they seem to want to control it. If their lawyers can argue that people infer "d20 System" from "d20" they can [B]try[/B] to claim ownership of the type of die. There is actually no game system called "3.5 System", so in a legal sense I would say this logo is pretty meaningless. Now if everyone assumes that 3.5 System refers to the 3.5 SRD then people will [B]infer[/B] a meaning for this logo, but AFAIK that isn't a trademark. [/QUOTE]

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