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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 1870751" data-attributes="member: 6957">I am sorry that this topic seems to have bred some ill will. And I thank you for the thought. Something that you may want to take notice of is that a fair number of the naysayers and contrarians are people who make their livings off of OGL and the SRD, if they err on the side of caution it is better than having a friendly letter from WotC. (And from what I gather WotC really is polite and friendly about it, especially compared to some companies that sue at the first chance they get.) And there are people who have gotten those letters on fan driven projects. (PCGen comes to mind.)Perhaps you can take one small portion of the OGL material in UA - stripping out IP, then build upon it, adding some extra options, this would be a fair use of the material if you cite the source in the license, and would draw less fire than merely cutting and pasting the contents of the book.Sometimes it is fun seeing how a given bit of OGL material is picked up by several companies, and how it mutates over time. The Open Naval Combat System from Mongoose Publishing's Seas of Blood comes to mind - Swashbuckling Adventures, Skull & Bones, and Mongoose Publishing's own Book of the Sea all take that system and build on it, changing it to fit their needs - which is where the OGL has its greatest strength in my opinion, a system that works can be used by multiple parties rather than having folks reinvent the wheel.<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=":)" />The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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