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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 2535927" data-attributes="member: 6390">Not a problem, I'll avoid personal shots completely, and hopefully tongue in cheek or sarcasm poking fun at myself and the system is still OK. And I also promise not to hide little snipes and attacks. Usually I just come right out and say it, and thought I did pretty good this time. I guess the biggest problem, is once again the internet doesn't have a tone of voice replicator, so it's hard to understand sometimes what's poking fun at myself and teh whole situation, not individual people.Mostly, I'm pretty disgusted over the thought that someone would complain about the fact it's considered polite to ask about utilizing content as "inhibiting thier creativity". I'm also VERY disgusted over the fact that many people, who have enjoyed the fact that the OGL exists, would seem to think that OGL and OGC are thier personal property.When the OGL came out, it meant a lot of free fan sites no longer had to worry about cease and desist orders, and that everyone could post house rules, and even try to sell them on PDF's. A lot of people worked together, asking: "Hey, can I use this from you?" in order to keep from having bad blood between each other. The OGL was seen more as a community thing, a way to make something really cool and expand the system beyond the original, and less a tool reserved only for publishers.Now, many people are talking about closing thier content, which is something that I had (obviously mistakenly) assumed from reading the liscenses and FAQ's was something only Wizards could do. You could declare PI on everything but the mechanics, but the mechanics were OGC no matter what, and you just had to live with it.Asking another publisher: "Hey, can I borrow this?" was only a formality, but considered the decent thing to do. It was extremely doubtful they'd so no regarding mechanics, but possibly say no regarding flavor or campaign text.MOST d20/OGL material out there is OGC, at least regarding the mechanics. Anything based off of, or derivative, of the d20 system is considered OGC as far as mechanics go. But still, before you go and borrow Joe Publisher's spell casting rules for artificially intelligent hypershrubs, you ask.Sometimes, they'll even let you know thier original vision, that they weren't able to include, or help you expand upon it, or even let you know if there has been any problems with it in reviews/playtests after it was published.Part of a community is contributing to the whole and being polite/cordial to one another.Yeah, I'm arrogant, sarcastic, sometimes rude and just plain mean, but I won't take your stuff without asking, and will give credit where credit is due. I'll also let someone else use the OGC stuff I come up with, and often the PI material if I don't have any plans for it.But asking's polite, even if you do use OGC material.</blockquote>

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