Mythusmage on Crippled OGC

[mythusmage]

So change the name of the damn spell and get over it.

 

[demiurge1138]

Eh? Are you talking about the Mage's Spell spells? A lot of companies change the names (Inner Circle and Necromancer leap to mind) for their use.

Demiurge out.

 

[mythusmage]

Eh? Are you talking about the Mage's Spell spells? A lot of companies change the names (Inner Circle and Necromancer leap to mind) for their use.

Demiurge out.

No, I'm talking about people who bitch and moan because something like a spell name is IP, while the mechanics and basic description are OGC. If your imagination is that broken, maybe RPGs aint for you.

 

[demiurge1138]

Ah.

 

[Sledge]

The problem is when you rename it, you lose your source. Now you have a spell with a name that doesn't match any books.

 

[Crothian]

it matches the book the new spell is in, and problem solved

 

[William Ronald]

it matches the book the new spell is in, and problem solved

Plus many books and PDFs use names that are somewhat similar to the "official names," such as Mord's Disjunction.

 

[Morrus]

That's not crippled OGC. Crippled OGC refers to obscure declarations of OGC which make it hard or impossible for someone to determine what is OGC and what isn't.

I've never heard anyone complain about clearly marked IP, such as spell names and the like.

 

[mythusmage]

That's not crippled OGC. Crippled OGC refers to obscure declarations of OGC which make it hard or impossible for someone to determine what is OGC and what isn't.

I've never heard anyone complain about clearly marked IP, such as spell names and the like.

I have. You simply have the atrocious luck to deal primarily with people with brains and initiative

 

[Varianor Abroad]

A truly short and pointed post Mythusmage. One I agree with!

Personally, I despise the term "crippled" for OGC. It implies that the creator of the content did something to wound it, for one. Everyone gets the use of portions of someone else's work, for free, for two. (Is it that hard to write a letter to a publisher asking for permission? Yeah, I know some don't answer, but most actually do!) And for three, it created such a loaded connotation that I think a few people (not Morrus) who complain about it on the Internet have actually scared publishers into increasing their closed content and/or not clarifying their declarations.