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<blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4408430" data-attributes="member: 1054">That's a biggie. I also think the lack of clarity on &quot;extend&quot; vs. &quot;redefine&quot; makes books like the APH -- or, really, any splat -- risky. Let's suppose I want to a swashbuckling setting, with flintlocks and so on. I think giving rangers a bunch of gun-based exploits is a good idea. To avoid some redundancy, I might just borrow a lot of the bow powers and recast them as gun based. So I rename &quot;Knockdown Shot&quot; as &quot;Kneecapping&quot;, and give it the same effect. Here I run into problems:a)Unlike the OGL, I cannot use any text. But let's face it -- there's not too many ways to say &quot;Target takes damage and falls down&quot;. There's almost no way, other than the flavor text, that &quot;Kneecapping&quot; will not be written very, very, closely to &quot;Knockdown Shot&quot;. Will WOTC care? The seeming intent of the GSL is to prevent wholesale copying of the rules, not to make it impossible to make similar powers, but &quot;seeming intent&quot; has no legal value.b)Does giving gun based powers to the ranger &quot;extend&quot; him, or does it &quot;redefine&quot; him? I have no clue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lizard, post: 4408430, member: 1054"] That's a biggie. I also think the lack of clarity on "extend" vs. "redefine" makes books like the APH -- or, really, any splat -- risky. Let's suppose I want to a swashbuckling setting, with flintlocks and so on. I think giving rangers a bunch of gun-based exploits is a good idea. To avoid some redundancy, I might just borrow a lot of the bow powers and recast them as gun based. So I rename "Knockdown Shot" as "Kneecapping", and give it the same effect. Here I run into problems: a)Unlike the OGL, I cannot use any text. But let's face it -- there's not too many ways to say "Target takes damage and falls down". There's almost no way, other than the flavor text, that "Kneecapping" will not be written very, very, closely to "Knockdown Shot". Will WOTC care? The seeming intent of the GSL is to prevent wholesale copying of the rules, not to make it impossible to make similar powers, but "seeming intent" has no legal value. b)Does giving gun based powers to the ranger "extend" him, or does it "redefine" him? I have no clue. [/QUOTE]

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