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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9613430" data-attributes="member: 8461">Reading this over, I have several thoughts:The big one to keep in mind is that this isn't going to be a question of plagiarism, but of Open Game Content. All of the sources you list are published under the Open Game License, and it's entirely legal (i.e. not plagiarism) to repost Open Game Content published under the OGL. So long as you do that, everything is perfectly legal. No rewording needed.Now, doing so means following a number of steps, including:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Make sure that what you reprint falls under the Open Game Content declaration of the books you're drawing from.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Make sure that the product you're reproducing that content in has its own declaration of Open Game Content, and a declaration of Product Identity (these are required by the OGL).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Reprint the OGL in full somewhere in the body of your product.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Under the Section 15 listing of your product's reprinted OGL, reproduce the full Section 15 of every book whose Open Game Content you use. You'll also need to add an original listing for your own book to the Section 15, which should include the book's title, author's name, and year of publication.</li> </ol>That's really all you need to do.Now, you can't say that it's compatible with D&D/Dungeons & Dragons, since that would require a separate license with WotC (e.g. if you wanted to publish it under the DMs Guild, which I think is incompatible with using the OGL), and saying it's compatible with Pathfinder would require using Paizo's Pathfinder Compatibility License (which has several additional terms and restrictions, and in exchange lets you use the Pathfinder Compatibility Logo). But if those aren't concerns for you, then you're fine.As far as indicating where the Open Game Content came from, I'm pretty sure you're fine there. Monte Cook's 2004 supplement <a href="https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/2732/monte-cook-presents-the-year-s-best-d20?affiliate_id=820" target="_blank">The Year's Best d20</a> (affiliate link) openly listed where each reprinted item came from right in the body of the text (i.e. without footnotes) and that was perfectly fine.In fact, now that I have my own copy of Mongoose Publishing's Ultimate Game Designer's Companion, it seems to be a perfect example of what you're trying to do here, since much like the aforementioned Year's Best d20, the entire book seems to be reprinted Open Game Content from other sources. That's not a knock against it, I should note: I'm quite enjoying having so much great material in one place! If you want to do the same sort of project, you should definitely go for it.</blockquote>

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