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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8543453" data-attributes="member: 7026594">To the best of my recollection that's not accurate.  That's the theoretical basis for a number of retroclones (certainly Basic Fantasy RPG, among the first wave, and at least nominally true of Labyrinth Lord), but OSRIC in particular uses the SRD under the OGL only for limited parts of the text (and TBF, a remarkable amount of 3E spell verbiage, for example, is retained from AD&D).  Most of OSRIC is very much designed (and reviewed by attorneys involved in its creation) to emulate 1E in ways which do not run afoul of copyright. Such as the THAC0 tables being based on a demonstrable algorithm, and the saving throw, experience, and ability score tables being slightly altered from AD&Ds, because the originals were not based on a demonstrable algorithm.</blockquote>