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

[Doug Meerschaert]

"Ryan S. Dancey" wrote:

> Perhaps the license could provide specific boilerplate text that was
> preapproved.  Then the license could say "you cannot describe the process
> for creating a character, but you may include the following: To create a
> character, consult the instructions in the Core Rules."

"Boilerplate" is probably the wrong term.  Better would be to give some
example, and then mandate or allow "equivalent text," and still have the period
to cure.

A good portion of the folk who will be writing d20 games and suppliments won't
be lawyers, and a fair portion of those non-lawyers won't have access to them.
(To pull a name that isn't me out of a hat, most of the TSR-worlds fansites
will do d20 / 3e conversions.)


To comment on the "10% OGC", you could just define a list of acceptable
products for the D20 logo...

Complete Game (Deadlands.)
Adventure (Death in Freeport)
Campaign Setting (Elric, Dunandralis)
Campaign Supplement. (like a setting, but less.)
Rules Supplement. (The Craft of the Mind)
Character or Character Type (Drizzt Do'Urden, The Creature Collection)

Reasonable definitions of these shouldn't be hard to find or concieve.


DM