Oh, the joys of the OGL (Unearthed Arcana)

[Ranger REG]

It sounds to me like he's OCRing it -- "substituting meaningless names for their meaningless names" and deleting mind flayers et. al..

Well, not knowing MerricB personally, I think he is doing exactly that ... extracting the text and removing any Product Identity (either deleting them or replace them with something that can be used as OGC). I also think he is also removing any copyrighted and trademarked content (i.e., text, artworks, etc.) that is neither designated OGC nor PI.

[If you didn't, MerricB, consider this a polite reminder.]

 

[CRGreathouse]

Well, not knowing MerricB personally, I think he is doing exactly that ... extracting the text and removing any Product Identity (either deleting them or replace them with something that can be used as OGC). I also think he is also removing any copyrighted and trademarked content (i.e., text, artworks, etc.) that is neither designated OGC nor PI.

Well he basically said so much -- he referenced 2 pieces of closed content he removed and one generic category besides.

As a nitpick, he's not removing copyrighted content -- just the non-OGC content. (All OGC is copyrighted by virtue of the license itself.)

 

[MerricB]

Hehe.

Yes, I am OCRing the text and not including any of the images, page borders or similar items.

Just have to say: OCR technology is absolutely amazing. What a great development of technology.

So, what are the irrelevant portions?

"...as defined by the Open Gaming License..." etc. There's a couple of sentences I don't feel like typing out.

If your FLGS has a copy of UA by now, you'll find the definitions on the page with the rest of the credits at the front of the book. There's not much I haven't mentioned. (The title page? I forget the proper name for it).

Cheers!

 

[Bendris Noulg]

Well, not knowing MerricB personally, I think he is doing exactly that ... extracting the text and removing any Product Identity (either deleting them or replace them with something that can be used as OGC).

Alternately, he can replace them with his own PI.

 

[MerricB]

Alternately, he can replace them with his own PI.

Damn! I should have done that!

Too late now... I'm afraid the "Masked Maniac" is now OGC!

(or not - it might be a trademark I've used improperly... )

Cheers!

 

[Ranger REG]

As a nitpick, he's not removing copyrighted content -- just the non-OGC content. (All OGC is copyrighted by virtue of the license itself.)

That's what I mean ... "removing copyrighted content that is neither designated as OGC nor PI."

 

[Visceris]

I plan on doing the same thing, but it will have all the campaign information the player's will need to create and maintain their characters within the campaign.