Spell templates themselves are OGC by virtue of Dragon magazine. The specific templates in MCAU are probably not, or maybe they are...but the idea definately is.
----- Original Message ----- From: "woodelf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:04 PM Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] On the matter of game concepts > At 12:13 -0800 12/15/03, Fred wrote: > >What I would do, is ask (politely) for a copy of the OGC relating to spell and > >weapon templates, and for permission to cite them in your work. > > There is none--none of the weapon templates or spell templates > material is OGC, at least in Arcana Unearthed. Which mightily > disappointed me when i got the book: IMHO, those, along with the idea > of diminished/heightened effects for spells, are the best bits of the > whole book. > > Frankly, if i'd known beforehand not only what was OGC, but which > element si'd find the most useful/innovative, i might not've bought > AU: I'm now stuck in the bind of knowing that anything like spell > templates that i come up with is likely to be heavily derivative of > his work [whether i intend it to or not--and how do i know i would or > wouldn't have come up with similar elements to the obvious ones like > "corrupt" and "blessed" had i not read his?], which isn't OGC, > whereas if i'd not read the book, just read about the basic concept > i'd feel free to develop my own version with a clear conscience. If > i want to be absolutely clean in the derivation of my work, i have to > now avoid a whole area of very cool development, because i read > someone else's work on the matter, and it's not OGC but in an > OGC-containing work--so i can not reuse the existing, build upon the > existing, or do anything very similar of my own. [Now, as it turns > out, i'm *not* that concerned--i'll make a good-faith effort to do my > own thing, or only resemble his work insofar as it is "idea", and > thus outside the realm of copyright, and basically act like his work > didn't exist and/or i didn't read it. But it's still annoying.] > -- > woodelf <*> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://webpages.charter.net/woodelph/ > > You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of > focus. > _______________________________________________ > Ogf-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
