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<blockquote data-quote="Luke" data-source="post: 304689" data-attributes="member: 602">Haven't received any cease and desist order. Far as I know, RPM is fine.Just over a month ago I &quot;got grilled&quot; by Wizards over the legality of RPM. I've actually gone to a *lot* of trouble to ensure that RPM complies properly with the OGL. Originally I called it D20master, but changed the name after I realized that you couldn't do the software justice under the d20 trademark. Luckily, Ryan Dancey confirmed this pretty early for me.I actually went through the legality check with Anthony Valterra, and I believe that I came through satisfactorily. I have to say that I've found Anthony to be very pleasant, firm, and fair. Guys like Ryan and Anthony make D&amp;D/D20 the great system that it is today. In fact, I've actually found Anthony to be quite helpful, outside his role of ensuring licence compliance.My experience to date is that these WotC guys *are* for the fans. There are certain things that they have to do to fulfil their corporate obligations, but the properly licensed SRD is an incredibly great gift they've given us. It also happens to have worked out really well for *them* <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I think that the PCGen guys aren't too worried anyway. They'll very likely have to pull at least the Wizards non-SRD material.I'll be very surprised if I'm served a &quot;cease and desist&quot;, but if there is an issue, it's almost certainly likely to be something that can be cleaned up within the time-period allowed for by the licence.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Luke, post: 304689, member: 602"] Haven't received any cease and desist order. Far as I know, RPM is fine. Just over a month ago I "got grilled" by Wizards over the legality of RPM. I've actually gone to a *lot* of trouble to ensure that RPM complies properly with the OGL. Originally I called it D20master, but changed the name after I realized that you couldn't do the software justice under the d20 trademark. Luckily, Ryan Dancey confirmed this pretty early for me. I actually went through the legality check with Anthony Valterra, and I believe that I came through satisfactorily. I have to say that I've found Anthony to be very pleasant, firm, and fair. Guys like Ryan and Anthony make D&D/D20 the great system that it is today. In fact, I've actually found Anthony to be quite helpful, outside his role of ensuring licence compliance. My experience to date is that these WotC guys *are* for the fans. There are certain things that they have to do to fulfil their corporate obligations, but the properly licensed SRD is an incredibly great gift they've given us. It also happens to have worked out really well for *them* ;) I think that the PCGen guys aren't too worried anyway. They'll very likely have to pull at least the Wizards non-SRD material. I'll be [B]very[/B] surprised if I'm served a "cease and desist", but if there is an issue, it's almost certainly likely to be something that can be cleaned up within the time-period allowed for by the licence. [/QUOTE]

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