Re: [ogf-d20-l] D20 System Trademark License issues

[lizard]

"Ryan S. Dancey" wrote:
> 
> From: "Lizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> > I write a novel. It is 300 pages long. At the end of the novel, I describe
> > the characters, spells, monsters, and magic items which appeared in the
> > novel in D20 terms.
> 
> My argument is that this is not a D20 product, and should not have the D20
> trademarks on it.
> 
OK.

How do you draw the line between such a product, and a separate
'sourcebook' for a published world? It seems to me that if I took the
"D20 Appendix" from the novel and republished it as "Lizardworld
Sourcebook For D20", I would be well within both the spirit and the
letter of the (proposed) liscense. So publishing novel&sourcebook as a
single entity violates the license, but publishing them separately does
not? (The novel, of course, would not bear a D20 logo under these terms)

I'm not trying to be a pest, or to find out "what I can get away
with";I'm trying to get a firm understanding of the lines, both of the
letter and the spirit of the D20 STL.

(As a side note, given that Decipher now has the Star Trek rights, what
action, if any, would WOTC take should they announce a D20 Star Trek
RPG? Or is that in the realm of "We cannot comment on that."?)