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<blockquote data-quote="antiwesley" data-source="post: 8833013" data-attributes="member: 7031616"><p>Just as a clarification to me: I don't really like the OGL, to be honest. I think sometimes it's a broad stroke to protect items that shouldn't be copywritten in the first place. But it often makes me feel like I can't call a priest a cleric, a swordfighter a warrior, or a magic user a wizard, because this is all in the SRD. These terms have been used interchangably for centuries, long before DnD even existed. I may not have read things right, because honestly, it just makes my head hurt. So I sit here paralyzed, wanting to create content, but without the restrictions of the OGL, as it wouldn't even refer to anything in it to begin with. Yes, I understand I can have a 'gremlin' or other common creatures based on mythological sources, but I can't use the SRD to describe it, even if I intended to use gremlins as they are defined in the SRD. For beginners, the OGL is more of a nightmare, and just makes things harder to decipher, IMHO.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="antiwesley, post: 8833013, member: 7031616"] Just as a clarification to me: I don't really like the OGL, to be honest. I think sometimes it's a broad stroke to protect items that shouldn't be copywritten in the first place. But it often makes me feel like I can't call a priest a cleric, a swordfighter a warrior, or a magic user a wizard, because this is all in the SRD. These terms have been used interchangably for centuries, long before DnD even existed. I may not have read things right, because honestly, it just makes my head hurt. So I sit here paralyzed, wanting to create content, but without the restrictions of the OGL, as it wouldn't even refer to anything in it to begin with. Yes, I understand I can have a 'gremlin' or other common creatures based on mythological sources, but I can't use the SRD to describe it, even if I intended to use gremlins as they are defined in the SRD. For beginners, the OGL is more of a nightmare, and just makes things harder to decipher, IMHO. [/QUOTE]

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