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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Luke" data-source="post: 333879" data-attributes="member: 602"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/roleplayingmaster/dragons_2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Publisher SupportI'm starting to make open content source material downloads available for the RolePlayingmaster software product. These can be seen at the download section at <a href="http://www.enworld.org/roleplayingmaster" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/roleplayingmaster</a> .I'm very keen to hear from any publishers that are willing to have their content available as RolePlayingMaster downloads. I can be contacted at <a href="mailto:luke_jones@bigpond.com">luke_jones@bigpond.com</a> .In other words, I'm after your special permission to incorporate closed content in the RPM download suite. This would be similar to permission obtained by PCGen from certain publishers.Whilst RPM has significant lookup content for core SRD material, I completely understand (and welcome), simply using references to D20 publisher book material (to assist publishers in marketing their products).There is significant support for comprehensive publisher support in RolePlayingMaster, as follows:- Publishers can create their own "Source", which can contain their own feats, skills, spells, races, items, etc.- A source can also contain an encyclopaedia of campaign setting material ( tree-view search and access with hyperlinks, including graphics, rich-text, Word cut and paste).- A full source module, combining all these facets can easily be exported, and made available for import.- RolePlayingMaster also supports Adventure Building (complete with maps, locations, descriptions, and prepared encounters), which can also be made available as module imports.Your material doesn't have to be a free download. As with PDFs, you can create your own modules, and charge for them, if you wish. There is no need to pay any royalty, or anything else, to use RolePlayingmaster in this way.Benefits to consumers- The material is much more malleable thatn for example, that which is published in PDF format. DMs can easily adjust encounters, or other material, to suit their campaigns.- RolePlayingmaster offers very significant software support at the gaming table. Hyperlinks in content detail could result in quicker and easier lookups. Maps can be used directly on-screen, and encounters can be played out with computer assistance (RolePlayingMaster's primary strong point).Licence Compliance For the record, over the last year and a half, RolePlayingMaster has only distributed open content material.Whilst the legalities of the OGL/D20 licenses are seen as being software un-friendly, I have, in fact, recently been through fairly rigorous checking of my software for license compliance by Wizards of the Coast.To date, I have been able to successfully address all questions, and am not aware of any non-compliance issues (the best that a software developer can hope for on this issue). It would be fair to say the some officials were surprised. Additionally, in conversation with Wizards, it appears that should any anomolies appear, any possible issues should be minor enough to easily correct within the allowed 30 days.Looking forward to any forward thinking from D20 publishers <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Regards,</blockquote>

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