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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 7389454" data-attributes="member: 6750908">Okay.First... legally... you do not need the OGL to make a retroclone as long as you do not plagiarize the original game rules-- the rules can be mechanically identical, as long as the language you use to describe their function is originally written by you. You can't copy-paste and you really should not use the original rules as a reference, except after you've written, to make sure they're not too similar.Second, if you are using the OGL, you are forfeiting your legal right to do that in exchange for your right to use the Open Gaming Content, the rules that are written in the System Resource Document (SRD). Which means that if you do not want to rewrite the 500 pages of core rules, you're going to have to limit yourself to material that is either 1) your own original work or 2) included in the SRD.With what you're describing here... I think you're in the clear. You're making a 5e product, you're using the 5e SRD. 5e already has its own terminology to describe A/E/D powers, even if it's deliberately clunky as hell just to avoid offending the 3e partisans. You just describe being able to use the power at-will, or how many times you can use it before it refreshes on a short rest or a long rest.What you need to avoid are using the names of 4e's class powers, and using the names of 4e classes that are not words in common usage-- so your "Shaman" and "Psion" are probably fine, but your "Battlemind" and your "Ardent" are probably not.</blockquote>

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