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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3982462" data-attributes="member: 2067">I kind of agree, however I don't think this can really stop the radically-diverged product.You could still release, say, Mutants and Masterminds, with the text "Fully compatible with the 4th Edition of the world's most popular role playing game!" You wouldn't be able to reference the exact rules, but you don't really need to most of the time. If your product is radically diverged, most of the exact rules would have to be changed anyway, ya?Especially if the SRD is more guidelines, less specific stats, you wouldn't often be able to point back to it, anyway. And since that defines what content is open, if it's not in the SRD, all you CAN do is reference it obliquely. It makes it more awkward, but not impossible. Game mechanics, after all, aren't copyrighted (IIRC), and I could still make a 4e-compatible product that used the basic 4e rules (3 tiers, at-will/per-encounter/per-day abilities, d20 vs. a DC, etc) without ever having to reference anything that Wizards has claim over. More difficult, and requiring more careful footwork, but still possible in an Arcana Unearthed kind of way, where you dance around D&Disms, invent your new isms, and make things with substantially similar rules that don't vary any more than your nearest house-ruled campaign will.And there's the mention of future, broader OGLs and SRDs coming down the pipe, too. The d20 Modern might be more generic. And the community could always publish an "IP-Free" OGL and SRD of their own that doesn't reference D&D in any kind of way. But those last are all kind of dreamland material. Practically, what this means is that publishers who want to to crazy creative stuff right out the gate can either go the "Arcana Unearthed" route of oblique references and slightly different rules, or can just wait and see if future OGL/SRD pairings will be more suited to their product (Spycraft and M&M, for instance, might be better off using the d20 Modern version).</blockquote>

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