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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 6371745" data-attributes="member: 40166"><p>No, they didn't. You can look in vain for the Castles and Crusades SRD, and they claim to lock down the main part of the system, the SIEGE mechanic. There are a lot of D20 derivatives that didn't bother to create an SRD and in some cases have actively tried to fight the open reuse of their system.</p><p></p><p>Beyond the SRD, they created a trademark license for Pathfinder that "nurtures a relatively free-handed third-party publishing culture". Sans trademark license, the OGL won't let third-parties claim compatibility, which makes it real hard for third parties to sell product; they have to resort to wink, wink, nudge, nudge, e.g. "for generic fantasy systems", "for the 3.5 edition of the world's most popular roleplaying game", etc.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>I don't know what you're talking about here. The Pathfinder RPG was released GenCon 2009 (August 13-16), and the Web Archive shows that the first appearance of the Pathfinder SRD was August 16, 2009: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090816000422/http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/" target="_blank">http://web.archive.org/web/20090816000422/http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/</a> . </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>That would be a heck of an argument. Pathfinder has released all the bestiaries under the OGL in their SRD, whereas WotC released most of their first one. They also released the Ultimate books and the Advanced books whereas WotC released none of the Complete * or Races of * books.</p><p></p><p> And, again, they didn't have to; the Creature Collection (possibly Revised too, but I'm looking at the original) said the description and the names of the creatures were not open content, which made referencing it impossible and reuse except for mechanics impractical. If you're looking for monsters for an OGL product, it's probably best to just act like the Creature Collection doesn't exist. The Pathfinder Bestiaries don't have that problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 6371745, member: 40166"] No, they didn't. You can look in vain for the Castles and Crusades SRD, and they claim to lock down the main part of the system, the SIEGE mechanic. There are a lot of D20 derivatives that didn't bother to create an SRD and in some cases have actively tried to fight the open reuse of their system. Beyond the SRD, they created a trademark license for Pathfinder that "nurtures a relatively free-handed third-party publishing culture". Sans trademark license, the OGL won't let third-parties claim compatibility, which makes it real hard for third parties to sell product; they have to resort to wink, wink, nudge, nudge, e.g. "for generic fantasy systems", "for the 3.5 edition of the world's most popular roleplaying game", etc. I don't know what you're talking about here. The Pathfinder RPG was released GenCon 2009 (August 13-16), and the Web Archive shows that the first appearance of the Pathfinder SRD was August 16, 2009: [URL]http://web.archive.org/web/20090816000422/http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/[/URL] . That would be a heck of an argument. Pathfinder has released all the bestiaries under the OGL in their SRD, whereas WotC released most of their first one. They also released the Ultimate books and the Advanced books whereas WotC released none of the Complete * or Races of * books. And, again, they didn't have to; the Creature Collection (possibly Revised too, but I'm looking at the original) said the description and the names of the creatures were not open content, which made referencing it impossible and reuse except for mechanics impractical. If you're looking for monsters for an OGL product, it's probably best to just act like the Creature Collection doesn't exist. The Pathfinder Bestiaries don't have that problem. [/QUOTE]
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