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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 2886957" data-attributes="member: 813">trancejeremy hit every bullet point for why reuse of OGC is hard:1) you can't help people find it without getting permission. Sure, most publishers say they grant permission easily, but you still need to secure it in writing if you want to be safe legally. It does not take zero time to secure this permission.2) most OGC is not in compliance with the license because most section 15s are woefully incorrect.2a) even if someone does it correctly, you can't tell if it is correct just by looking at it.3) there are an equal number of potential customers who will be turned off by a) reprinting the material from the other book, as will be turned off by b) not reprinting the material.4) Even when in compliance, copying the text of OGC without editing is not possible. You always need to rewrite it so that your product maintains consistant voicing/phrasing. And there is a bunch of OGC which disallows copying the text verbatim, so you would have to rewrite that anyway. (Rewriting is something of a best practice with OGC since it doesn't seem as "lame" as just copying/pasting laziness.)5) If you don't reprint, you have to hope that lightning strikes twice and the buyer not only bought your limited run book, but also purchase 1 or more other limited run books. Likely? Not really.Reprinting is much better? Always? Or just to a certain degree? If the stuff I use requires that my reprinted material is 10% of my book is that okay? 20%? 50%? An adventure with all borrowed monsters, a borrowed class central to the theme of the adventure, and a bunch of spells and feats could easily be 50% adventure and 50% reprinted material. So now half the book is material the writer won't get paid for (there goes his incentive to reuse) and if its a PDF, I can't really charge full price based on length since 50% of that length will be viewed as padding to some potential customers.It's all a big headache. The OGL looks like it has flaws, but I think those flaws are well designed to allow OGC to promote wizards books without allowing too much material to flow outside of wizards material.And Roudi is also correct. Ego plays a large part as well. Most RPG writers started writing RPG material because the existing RPGs did not meet their needs. Being an RPG writer just assumes thinking you can do it better than all the other RPG writers. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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