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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 1130837" data-attributes="member: 70">I was a little vague; but also a little less strict in my interpretation than you are.IANAL.At the most extreme, EVERY rule interacts with the game system somehow; ergo all rules are OGC.  That's not my interpretation.Some new mechanics modify, clarify, expand, compress, or simplify portions of the existing rules. Death's door, alternate poison effects, detailed diseases...these take an existing OGC concept and revise it.  Any mechanic thus derived should, IMO, be OGC.  It's derivative.Fewer mechanics add in rule subsets to govern otherwise undefined (in the SRD) areas -- fear and horror checks from Ravenloft, sanity checks, critical hit charts...these add rules to govern a specific situation, and typically interact with OGC at a variety of points (Will saves, wisdom bonuses, BAB, natural 20 = critical hit...).  Any ruleset thus added in should probably, IMO, be OGC, but may not be if it defines something integral to the PI of the campaign setting and addresses an issue otherwise unaddressed in the SRD.  Most will be derivative, some will be enhancement.A third set of mechanics introduces the "fourth wall"...and breaks it.  This is where void points, action points, and hero points (panache points, pizza points, Mucchiello money, etc, etc, etc) almost always come in.  All of these boil down to one thing: the player of a game can "buy", via an expendable resource, an alteration to the otherwise unalterable rules of the game.  The alteration can be narrowly defined (an expended void point adds +1 to the DC of a fire spell), loosely defined (a panache point adds +1d20 to another die roll), or barely defined (a zippy allows you to reroll any one roll), but they all come down to the same thing.  Any mechanics involved are either simple additions and subtractions to the existing system (+1 DC) or vague alterations (reroll any one roll) -- they are essentially so fundamental they're (mechanically) impossible to declare closed content.  What is essentially declared in these cases are the title words "Void Points, Hero Points, Mucchiello Money".  I expect this material to be declared PI or closed.  I like void points, but the core idea is so basic, my only motivation for using void points would be to signify a compatibility with AEG's Rokugan material. (It doesn't hurt that all of AEG's feats are unquestionably open).  The entire system is utterly replicable with Mucchiello Money.  It's an enhancement, but a very, very, primal one.  There are only so many ways to interact with a dice-based rule system, and they all involve dice and/or numbers.Alright.  It's a "feely" sort of thing.  There're a thousand loopholes.  But that's my working opinion, until it changes.<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=":-)" />Nell.</blockquote>

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