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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6190776" data-attributes="member: 42582">[MENTION=6750412]Dale Robbins[/MENTION] - clause 15 of the OGL requires you to reproduce the clause 15 of the OGC that you are citing. What you describe in post 3 sounds to me like it is non-compliant.The material from UA does not appear to be on the WotC SRD page (<a href="https://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/srd35" target="_blank">https://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/srd35</a>). Therefore what&nbsp; [MENTION=22424]delericho[/MENTION] suggests would definitely be non-compliant. But Unearthed Arcana should itself contain a clause 15 declaration for you to reprouce. On <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/ogl.htm" target="_blank">d20srd.org it is cited in this way</a>: Unearthed Arcana Copyright 2004, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Andy Collins, Jesse Decker, David Noonan, Rich Redman. Presumably they are citing correctly, but if I were you I would want to verify by reference to the actual clause 15 declaration in UA itself.If you're not concerned about OGL declarations, but just about explaining in the text of your document where you got inspiration from, then simply say it - for instance, &quot;This class was inspired by the Thug class found in WotC's Unearthed Arcana sourcebook&quot;. That would not be a violation of any copyright or trademark rights belonging to WotC, and I do not think that it would violate any of your contractual obligations under the OGL - I do not think that &quot;Unearthed Arcana&quot; is itself a piece of Product Identity, but you'd need to check the declarations in the UA book (if &quot;Unearthed Arcana&quot; is Product Identity than you can't reproduce it without violating your contractual obligations under the OGL).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6190776, member: 42582"] [MENTION=6750412]Dale Robbins[/MENTION] - clause 15 of the OGL requires you to reproduce the clause 15 of the OGC that you are citing. What you describe in post 3 sounds to me like it is non-compliant. The material from UA does not appear to be on the WotC SRD page ([url=https://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/srd35]https://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/srd35[/url]). Therefore what [MENTION=22424]delericho[/MENTION] suggests would definitely be non-compliant. But Unearthed Arcana should itself contain a clause 15 declaration for you to reprouce. On [url=http://www.d20srd.org/ogl.htm]d20srd.org it is cited in this way[/url]: Unearthed Arcana Copyright 2004, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Andy Collins, Jesse Decker, David Noonan, Rich Redman. Presumably they are citing correctly, but if I were you I would want to verify by reference to the actual clause 15 declaration in UA itself. If you're not concerned about OGL declarations, but just about explaining in the text of your document where you got inspiration from, then simply say it - for instance, "This class was inspired by the Thug class found in WotC's [I]Unearthed Arcana[/I] sourcebook". That would not be a violation of any copyright or trademark rights belonging to WotC, and I do not think that it would violate any of your contractual obligations under the OGL - I do not think that "Unearthed Arcana" is itself a piece of Product Identity, but you'd need to check the declarations in the UA book (if "Unearthed Arcana" is Product Identity than you can't reproduce it without violating your contractual obligations under the OGL). [/QUOTE]

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