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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8559165" data-attributes="member: 19857">yes.  This exact dance of trying to declare compatibility with D&D without mentioning D&D to avoid a TSR legal team coming to beat down your door is exactly the kind of dancing that the OGL and the d20 license ended back in the day.Amusingly If they aren't actually using the OGL then the I don't think the word is forbidden.  The OGL is a license that works both ways - Wizards agrees to let you use the D&D rules, and in exchange you agree to not use selected terms that they consider unique identity that they want to preserve for themselves.  If you go off and try to do the old fashioned lawyer avoidance dance, then you haven't agreed to anything and are setting up some kind of claim that game rules can't be copyrighted, only expressions of game rules, so your usage is perfectly cromulent.(I also don't think it's necessary ironic - it may be that they're trying to bait Wizards into suing them over this because it is a move that would actually generate some sympathy from various quarters. I'm not saying they are, but it wouldn't surprise me.)</blockquote>