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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Stark" data-source="post: 3014435" data-attributes="member: 38437">Highly unlikely. Its a matter of public record that WotC is aware of OSRIC (very much so). Whatever might happen is going to come out in the wash in the short term, not the long. And the OSRIC authors are very confident in the integrity of the work they have done.The companies publishing with OSRIC couldn't be forced to do anything IMO (and thats all that is, an opinion) if the worst case scenario came about. OSRIC can't just be shut down. Either the legal challengers have to state what parts of OSRIC they claim are off base so that the authors can fix it, which would settle the whole matter once and for all, or they would need to buy the brand from the OSRIC trademark owners to keep it from being used, and I'm sure those owners wouldn't be selling cheap, heh.You cannot legally publishing using the C&C system. They own that trademark, and have put trademarks on certain parts of their products, that would require you to get their permission to use C&C as a publishing vehicle, and most likely they would end up owning your work and paying you a pittance for it.With OSRIC there are no strings attached, other than including the OGL and the OSRIC license in your work, and making sure that you don't put anything in it that violates the OGL (which would reflect only upon you, not OSRIC, if you made the mistake of not following these requirements). You would not need permission from the owners of the OSRIC trademark to say, "This is compatible with OSRIC," you would retain the rights to your own work, and you would not be required to pay any kind of royalty or whatnot to the owners of the OSRIC trademark.EDIT: Let me just add that I think your points are well taken, and that I'm sure the feedback is most welcome by the OSRIC authors.</blockquote>

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