Planesdragon
First Post
Call it a brief lesson on the OGL--it's good for the hobby, it makes the D&D world go around faster than it ever has, and it's probably a good idea to get to know at least the bits and pieces of it. (This is just a reminder--not an in-depth summary or a good explination of why things are what they are.)
Anyway.
In a work covered by the OGL, espeically one that's an "extract" work like the SRD, there are three kinds of content:
Open Gaming Content : Use it, abuse it love it. The stuff that makes the OGL "O".
Product Identity : Text that's specifically NOT OGC, and that no one else who uses the OGL is allowed to use. The stuff that makes even the most paranoid companies use the OGL without fear.
"Hey wait, that's just two!"
Yep. The third one isn't named. It's just plain old "regular text." Not OGC, not PI--just "not OGC." It's covered by standard copyright and trademark law--just like the 2e books, or White Wolf's Storyteller books, or anything else you can think of.
The Yuan-ti, Mind Flayers, Draconians, Kender, Greyhawk dragons, Spellfire wielders, and everything else that is part of D&D but not noted as PI or OGC in the SRD is just "not covered text."
Anyway.
In a work covered by the OGL, espeically one that's an "extract" work like the SRD, there are three kinds of content:
Open Gaming Content : Use it, abuse it love it. The stuff that makes the OGL "O".
Product Identity : Text that's specifically NOT OGC, and that no one else who uses the OGL is allowed to use. The stuff that makes even the most paranoid companies use the OGL without fear.
"Hey wait, that's just two!"
Yep. The third one isn't named. It's just plain old "regular text." Not OGC, not PI--just "not OGC." It's covered by standard copyright and trademark law--just like the 2e books, or White Wolf's Storyteller books, or anything else you can think of.
The Yuan-ti, Mind Flayers, Draconians, Kender, Greyhawk dragons, Spellfire wielders, and everything else that is part of D&D but not noted as PI or OGC in the SRD is just "not covered text."
