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<blockquote data-quote="Christian" data-source="post: 81397" data-attributes="member: 381"><p>Officially, everything listed as 'released' on the SRD is fair game for anyone creating a game under the OGL. Remember that anything you don't mark as 'product identity' in your publication (and there's a fairly restrictive list of what you can so mark) is fair game for other OGL publishers to use! But since the Paladin class and the terms 'Armor Class' and 'Hit Points' are in the SRD, there are *no* restrictions on how you can use those, other than the terms of the OGL. (Part of the reason the SRD is being released so slowly is that the lawyers and designers are all going to want to go over the draft with a magnifying glass ...) If a name of anything is something WOTC wants to control as 'product identity', then they need to delete it from the SRD. And once it's 'released', then the genie's out of the bottle-the OGL says that anything published under that license is available for free use in perpetuity (section 4).</p><p></p><p>I'm sure there must be some folks at WOTC still thinking to themselves, "What have we done?!" Dancey must be one hell of a salesman. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>Maybe I'll talk later about the loophole they left themselves by copyrighting the Player's Handbook (etc.) while publishing only the SRD under the OGL, rather than publishing the PHB (etc.) under the OGL with the product identity marked ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Christian, post: 81397, member: 381"] Officially, everything listed as 'released' on the SRD is fair game for anyone creating a game under the OGL. Remember that anything you don't mark as 'product identity' in your publication (and there's a fairly restrictive list of what you can so mark) is fair game for other OGL publishers to use! But since the Paladin class and the terms 'Armor Class' and 'Hit Points' are in the SRD, there are *no* restrictions on how you can use those, other than the terms of the OGL. (Part of the reason the SRD is being released so slowly is that the lawyers and designers are all going to want to go over the draft with a magnifying glass ...) If a name of anything is something WOTC wants to control as 'product identity', then they need to delete it from the SRD. And once it's 'released', then the genie's out of the bottle-the OGL says that anything published under that license is available for free use in perpetuity (section 4). I'm sure there must be some folks at WOTC still thinking to themselves, "What have we done?!" Dancey must be one hell of a salesman. :D Maybe I'll talk later about the loophole they left themselves by copyrighting the Player's Handbook (etc.) while publishing only the SRD under the OGL, rather than publishing the PHB (etc.) under the OGL with the product identity marked ... [/QUOTE]
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