Re: [Open_Gaming] Timing for D20 System Release

[John of the Collective]

I would assume that the problem with releasing that document is how controlling 
Lucasfilm is.
Remember that in the old WEG book, Lucasfilm had rights to every bleeding thing in the
book(except the rules). and while it seems easy from our point of view to extract the 
rules,
it may prove to be a major R&D effort in and of it self to generalize them.

Doug Meerschaert wrote:

>
> > The fourth portion would be tied to Star Wars and doesn't need to be
> > released until after we ship the core Star Wars book (there are so many
> > legal issues here that I have no idea if or when we'll >ever< be able to
> > release the Star Wars stuff as an Open Game, but we should try anyway).
>
> Would the Star Wars rules actually be tied up in the trademark contract?  It
> seems to me that a distillaiton of the rules, indipendant of Lucas's
> trademarks, shouldn't infringe on the SW game at all.
>
> (If the SW game's rules WERE to be folded into the D20SRD, would the Star Wars
> book be an acceptable substitute for the PHB?  Could the phrase "This product
> requires the use of a complete d20 rulebook from WotC" be placed on a d20
> product?"
>

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