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<blockquote data-quote="dvvega" data-source="post: 411205" data-attributes="member: 524">First off, thank you Andy (he of the vital internship that does the work for the great management).This thread has been most helpful in clearing up a couple of questions I posted on the boards about a fortnight ago.However one thing still remains to be answered ...I understand the OGL, and what it is trying to accomplish, however the wording of the &quot;interaction&quot; clause is the one I'm most interested in.Yes, they want to stop people developing computer games based on d20, and this is 100% understandable. However, the whole thing about interaction ... I'm a DM, and I use my computer to run my game ... as such I like the machine to take care of a lot of grunt work ... ... now if it was to automatically roll attack rolls for my monsters, compare against a PCs AC and then roll damage, it breaks the interaction clause.... if I roll my own dice and input the results into the machine, it still breaks the interaction clause (since it's working things out via human input).Is the spirit of the OGL just about computer games? Or will it be left as is and essentially make anything actually useful like a combat organiser not allowed to be shared amongst fellow gamers?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dvvega, post: 411205, member: 524"] First off, thank you Andy (he of the vital internship that does the work for the great management). This thread has been most helpful in clearing up a couple of questions I posted on the boards about a fortnight ago. However one thing still remains to be answered ... I understand the OGL, and what it is trying to accomplish, however the wording of the "interaction" clause is the one I'm most interested in. Yes, they want to stop people developing computer games based on d20, and this is 100% understandable. However, the whole thing about interaction ... I'm a DM, and I use my computer to run my game ... as such I like the machine to take care of a lot of grunt work ... ... now if it was to automatically roll attack rolls for my monsters, compare against a PCs AC and then roll damage, it breaks the interaction clause. ... if I roll my own dice and input the results into the machine, it still breaks the interaction clause (since it's working things out via human input). Is the spirit of the OGL just about computer games? Or will it be left as is and essentially make anything actually useful like a combat organiser not allowed to be shared amongst fellow gamers? [/QUOTE]

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