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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pramas" data-source="post: 846701" data-attributes="member: 995">Guess it's time to nip this in the bud.Yes, FFE contacted us about their spell compendium. They wanted to use spells from a bunch of our books, including the Pocket Grimoires. They acknowledged that their proposed product was remarkably similar to the grimoires, but they asserted that they'd be complementary (despite the inclusion of the spells from the grimoires!). Now all that is neither here nor there as far as the OGL goes. Here's the full text of the response I sent them.<<As I'm sure you know, you don't require our permission to use Open Game Content. That's the nature of the license, after all, and we stand by it. If you use our OGC, you won't get any trouble from us as long as you use the license properly. However, if you are serious about going beyond the bounds of the license, then my preferred arrangement is that you never use our OGC and we'll never use yours. Your company and mine have not exactly seen eye to eye in the past and I think it'd be better all around if we kept our businesses separate.>>I got a short response from the editor a few days later, ignoring the second paragraph and assuring me that they would indeed use the license correctly. That's the last I heard about it and it was the end of the matter as far as I was concerned. Apparently, Mr. Ward decided not to use our spells after all and then made some unsavory insinuations about my company on his message boards. I could say a few thing about FFE and Mr. Ward, but I prefer to take the high road in matters such as this. I'm only talking about it in public at all to clear the air. Mr. Ward can dig a hole as deep as he wants for his own company, but he should keep my company out of it.</blockquote>

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