In a message dated 9/27/00 9:49:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Where did > that < idea come from?
It was running around last week while you were gone...several people here
decided that the definition of "Open Game Content" (describing it as game
rules, etc) automatically made all rules OGC...which was weird as it isn't
common for something in the definition section of a contract to have the
ability to do anything but define...:D
>
>The only new material that anyone is required to make Open Game Content
>is material derived from other Open Game Content (an "enhancement over the
>prior art").
>
Which I interpret as basically when I go and make an expanded "Turn Undead"
table built upon the original, that would automatically become open. If I
develop a "Make a Star Go Nova" table, based on nothing more than the idea of
making it work in d20, its *not* automatically open. Did I get that right?
>
>You could have non-OGC rules in a product using the OGL - heck; how else
>could you use the OGL to present conversion guidelines in an otherwise
>closed product?
That being the *other* good way to have non-OGC rules.
-Paul @ CFE/NSG
