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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roger" data-source="post: 3500980" data-attributes="member: 17420">The freelancer's world has two categories:  things that are Open Content, and everything that isn't.  The content on d20srd.org is Open, including the material they have from Unearthed Arcana.  Most of the rest from WotC isn't, so steer clear.  There's also the MSRD, containing Open Content from the d20 Modern game, which is often more applicable than you first might think, so give it a look.  Also, quite a bit of many third-party publications are Open Content, although you'll have to check out their individual declarations.This starts to get a bit gray and fuzzy.  Just how variant are they?  If you rewrite all the text, my sense is that you'll be fine.  If you happen to have mechanics which resemble those of published Closed Content... it's not entirely clear whether you could or would get sued over that.  If you don't do anything dumb like actually calling it "A Naval Variation of the Hexblade Class" I personally think you'll be okay.  But that's just my non-lawyer opinion.That's a really hard question to answer from the outside.  Check out the market, see what other products in that range are selling for, think about the price you can live with.  Off the top of my head I'd say that $5 is not enough and $20 is too much, but take that with a grain of salt.Not really.  There just isn't enough money in it to be really worth suing anyone over anything.  I know your artist is a friend, but you still might want to write up something, even something informal, about just what rights are being signed over and what compensation is expected, and then have both parties sign it.There's an OGL or something postcard to mail in to WotC so that they can contact you if they're all bent out of shape about something.  I think it'd be a good idea to fill it out and send it in.There's a section in the OGL that you attach at the end of your product, Section 15, I think it is, in which you should mention every product that you use OGC from.  Also, every product that /those/ products use OGC from.  And so on.  Lots and lots of folks don't really take as much care as maybe they should in filling this section out.  Lots of people probably don't care.  But give it some thought.RPGNow isn't a publisher, per se, as other people have mentioned.  As far as storefronts go, I've heard good things about YourGamesNow, but I haven't actually had any experience with them.Sounds pretty hot, especially if you can get it launched near the release of the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie.  But really, you're not going to be buying a new Ferrari out of it, no matter how popular it is.  So just do something you enjoy, and release a product you're proud of.Cheers,Roger</blockquote>

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