Ringing the Cowbell - A D20 Question

[Hussar]

The problem is, according to the OGL, I don't have to pay any royalties. The material is free to use. If publishers didn't want people to use it, they should not have included the OGL. There is no copywrite infringement IFAIK.

 

[Crothian]

The problem is, according to the OGL, I don't have to pay any royalties. The material is free to use. If publishers didn't want people to use it, they should not have included the OGL. There is no copywrite infringement IFAIK.

I'm curious then why you didn't go ahead and do this? Make an OGL wiki that is.

 

[Hussar]

Lack of time honestly. Between my regular gaming, work and wasting time here, I'm just full up. Well, that and a new baby.

On a related thought. It's been six years since the OGL came out. Six years. In that time, the number of cross polinated books can be counted on fingers and toes. Despite hundreds of publications, thousands of pages of OGC, there have been so few cross pollinated publications that people can actually name them.

To me, that is a complete failure of the OGL.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

And that lack of royalty is part of why the OGL failed to stimulate cross-pollination: the majority of the best stuff gets held back from being open content because to do otherwise devalues the original by "the death of 1000 cuts."

Meanwhile, the stuff that IS open content is, as you stated, spread out among numerous products, many of which are hard to find. That, coupled with other aspects of the OGL means that using someone's open content often means the purchaser must track down an additional supplement- which may be impossible, depending upon the rarity of the sourcebook.

 

[diaglo]

On a related thought. It's been six years since the OGL came out. Six years.

i bought the Pocket Grimoire Arcane and the Pocket Grimoire Divine back in 2002. 2 years. yes, 2 years after the OGL came out.

i guess at that time it looked like a good idea too.