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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 49650" data-attributes="member: 725">After reading through BOEMII (Book of Elderitch Might II for the uninitiated) i came to the following conclusion:1.) Darned cool book ;-)2.) Some things in D20 products are marked as OGL material, but other things that are very cool/interesting/useful are not.3.) There's more and more D20 material out there that does the same but through different rules sets. This becomes confusing for the consumer.What i as wondering is, how do the different game companies react when someone asks to use their copyrighted/IP materials for a D20 product. Has this actually happened? And if so, what kind of agreements where made?If i think of people using someone else's copyrights/IPs, i always think of very high monetary figures. But unless using something very high profile (such as the D&amp;D brand name) i don't see this as viable, it's very easy to come up with your own variant feat/spell name/monster, thus paying to use someone else's IP isn't often very economic. I can see so many advantages in publishers working together and sharing IPs (with limited liscences of course). People seeing a reference to a monster/item from product x and thinkng &quot;That product might be cool as well, let's take a look.&quot;What do publishers think of this?What do consumers think of this?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 49650, member: 725"] After reading through BOEMII (Book of Elderitch Might II for the uninitiated) i came to the following conclusion: 1.) Darned cool book ;-) 2.) Some things in D20 products are marked as OGL material, but other things that are very cool/interesting/useful are not. 3.) There's more and more D20 material out there that does the same but through different rules sets. This becomes confusing for the consumer. What i as wondering is, how do the different game companies react when someone asks to use their copyrighted/IP materials for a D20 product. Has this actually happened? And if so, what kind of agreements where made? If i think of people using someone else's copyrights/IPs, i always think of very high monetary figures. But unless using something very high profile (such as the D&D brand name) i don't see this as viable, it's very easy to come up with your own variant feat/spell name/monster, thus paying to use someone else's IP isn't often very economic. I can see so many advantages in publishers working together and sharing IPs (with limited liscences of course). People seeing a reference to a monster/item from product x and thinkng "That product might be cool as well, let's take a look." What do publishers think of this? What do consumers think of this? [/QUOTE]

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