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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9613452" data-attributes="member: 8461">Insofar as 3.5 material goes, if it's already published under the OGL, you already have a license from WotC for it, that being the OGL itself. You don't need any further permission from them, nor even their acknowledgment. That was what made the OGL so revolutionary: so long as you abided by its (very few and incredibly generous) terms, you had carte blanche on what you could do with it. (Which was why there was so much outrage when they tried to renege on that promise a few years ago, to the point where they were forced to back down.)Though just to be clear, that doesn't hold true for stuff that WotC never released under the OGL in the first place. So if you want to use 3.5 material from, say, Races of the Dragon (one of WotC's 3.5 D&amp;D books) then you're out of luck; the best you could do would be to either write original material that's thematically/mechanically similar to what you wanted to reuse, or find a third-party OGL product that's already made something similar.Likewise, you absolutely can reword things if you want to; that's permitted also.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 9613452, member: 8461"] Insofar as 3.5 material goes, if it's already published under the OGL, you already have a license from WotC for it, that being the OGL itself. You don't need any further permission from them, nor even their acknowledgment. That was what made the OGL so revolutionary: so long as you abided by its (very few and incredibly generous) terms, you had [I]carte blanche[/I] on what you could do with it. (Which was why there was so much outrage when they tried to renege on that promise a few years ago, to the point where they were forced to back down.) Though just to be clear, that doesn't hold true for stuff that WotC never released under the OGL in the first place. So if you want to use 3.5 material from, say, [I]Races of the Dragon[/I] (one of WotC's 3.5 D&D books) then you're out of luck; the best you could do would be to either write original material that's thematically/mechanically similar to what you wanted to reuse, or find a third-party OGL product that's already made something similar. Likewise, you absolutely [I]can[/I] reword things if you want to; that's permitted also. [/QUOTE]

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