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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 2470365" data-attributes="member: 10479">Certainly sounds easy enough.  <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=":)" />  Unfortunately, as with other instances involving the OGL and d20STL, I'm personally of the belief that seeking direct approval from WotC is likely to culminate in a negative response even if they didn't have the legal standing to back it up.  I think in most cases it is simply safer for them to automatically say "No" on the off chance that someone is trying to slip something by them.  Who knows?  Maybe on something as simple as this I'd be in error to expect a more corporate-legal reaction.  I wish the OGL list-server archives were accesible.  I might be able to point out some earlier instances where such an approach seemed less than potentially fruitful.In any event, if I was to appraoch WotC on such a matter, I think I would try to make it a lot easier for them to allow it and remove the risk that they might disallow it out-of-hand.  I think I would be prone to phrasing the question in such a way that they would need to be careful how they would answer, i.e. "I've seen no clear proprietary claim anywhere regarding the statistical presentation format currently in use by WotC and Paizo, so I'm wondering if I was to use it if I should expect legal proceedings to be started against me because of it?"  If they say "No" you're at least as safe as you could expect to be, since anyone can start a lawsuit even with specious standing.  If they say "Yes" then they've put themself in a position where they really have to take a definite stand if you even release a single page PDF with no more than a single Stat Block on it.I don't know.  Maybe I'm over-thinking it... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Why don't *you* aks them? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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