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<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 846919" data-attributes="member: 2013">You have hit the proverbial nail on the head.&nbsp; They are not.&nbsp; I long ago coined the term &quot;Crippled OGC&quot; for such things - because if you have to rename it when you re-use it, it doesn't really allow someone to find the original in the original source.Agree.&nbsp; If you don't want your major NPC &quot;Bob&quot; to have his name become Open Game Content, then don't call your spell, &quot;Bob's Nifty Spell&quot; just call it &quot;Nifty Spell&quot; and leave the names open.That's why I try VERY hard not to designate any text as closed except for company names, names of real human beings, product names, and e-mail addresses in my works. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; (I do close company names, names of real human beings, product names, and e-mail addresses since I don't want them bandied carelessly - ESPECIALLY e-mail addresses <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).I think the best quote I've heard on this came when I met Jim Butler (of Bastion Press) at GAMA.&nbsp; He said something to the effect of, &quot;let's be realistic.&nbsp; Hollywood is never going to glom onto our stuff an pay us millions of dollars, so why bother protecting it?&nbsp; Let's just let everyone use it.&quot; {It doesn't really cost us anything.}No.&nbsp; I am currentlly putting together a database of spells from every OGC source I have and am renaming them as needed - I hope to soon have them available/searchable from a webpage. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; Renaming the spell takes an extra 20 seconds, tops.As has been mentioned, I like my &quot;6-year-old with a highlighter&quot; rule... on the quote attributed to Einstein, &quot;if you can't explain something to a reasonably intelligent six-year old, you don't understand it yourself.&quot;&nbsp; So I postulate, if you can't make your OGC declaration clear enough for a reasonably intelligent six-year-old, you don't understand the declaration yourself.&nbsp; And if you, who are making the declaration, don't understand it, how can you expect anyone else to, much less for it to be &quot;clear?&quot;Yup. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />--The Sigil</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 846919, member: 2013"] You have hit the proverbial nail on the head. They are not. I long ago coined the term "Crippled OGC" for such things - because if you have to rename it when you re-use it, it doesn't really allow someone to find the original in the original source. Agree. If you don't want your major NPC "Bob" to have his name become Open Game Content, then don't call your spell, "Bob's Nifty Spell" just call it "Nifty Spell" and leave the names open. That's why I try VERY hard not to designate any text as closed except for company names, names of real human beings, product names, and e-mail addresses in my works. :) (I do close company names, names of real human beings, product names, and e-mail addresses since I don't want them bandied carelessly - ESPECIALLY e-mail addresses ;) ). I think the best quote I've heard on this came when I met Jim Butler (of Bastion Press) at GAMA. He said something to the effect of, "let's be realistic. Hollywood is never going to glom onto our stuff an pay us millions of dollars, so why bother protecting it? Let's just let everyone use it." {It doesn't really cost us anything.} No. I am currentlly putting together a database of spells from every OGC source I have and am renaming them as needed - I hope to soon have them available/searchable from a webpage. :) Renaming the spell takes an extra 20 seconds, tops. As has been mentioned, I like my "6-year-old with a highlighter" rule... on the quote attributed to Einstein, "if you can't explain something to a reasonably intelligent six-year old, you don't understand it yourself." So I postulate, if you can't make your OGC declaration clear enough for a reasonably intelligent six-year-old, you don't understand the declaration yourself. And if you, who are making the declaration, don't understand it, how can you expect anyone else to, much less for it to be "clear?" Yup. :) --The Sigil [/QUOTE]

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