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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roudi" data-source="post: 3880502" data-attributes="member: 12423">Just to give a significant example...If I were to take the entire game text of Modern20, unmodified, put it into a new PDF document under the name BetterModern, and sell it... then I would be poaching.Arguably, even if I modified it in an insignificant fashion (such as, changing the names of the classes, feats, skills, etc), I would still be poaching.The OGL does not prevent this.  From the legal standpoint of the Open Gaming License, so long as my Section 15 had the correct listing and I did not impinge on any protected material, my un-creative attempt to cash in on Modern20 would be uncontestable.My point was that, if I did something like this, I can guarantee that two of the major PDF vendors would boot me off their sites faster than I could say "natural 20".  I might be able to get away with this kind of poaching through the print market, but I have a good feeling that word would travel through the industry soon enough and I'd find myself eating my print investment like so much crow.Poaching is an industry concern, not a consumer concern.  If a consumer acquires game material through illegitimate means, that's piracy, not poaching, and is an entirely different topic of discussion.</blockquote>