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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6527267" data-attributes="member: 6775031">During my last attempt to read through the OGL, my best guess at interpreting it was that you could use anything that you wanted, but had to acknowledge the changes. If I wanted to include a Tendriculos, but my whole game was d8-based instead of d20, then I'd need to point out all of the changes in the legal text. It wasn't sufficient to merely say that the flavor text for my monsters was copied from, and the stats were inspired by, the SRD.But that's just my best guess. You can have a legal document which actually is very generous in its terms, but that's still a barrier to entry to anyone who isn't confident in their Legalese skill.That's... not how I understood it. Within the context of this thread, as put forth by the OP, I was referring to the OGL in regards to system mechanics. If you're just borrowing flavor text, then that's another matter entirely, and it basically comes down to whether you as a less-than-professional writer can leverage the novelty of your new descriptions against the same old professionally-written text that players have been reading for fifteen years.</blockquote>