RE: [Open_Gaming] OGL: Inhibiting creativity? And other philosophical musings...

[Brad Thompson]

> But here in OGLand, things are a little different. A particular reading of
> the OGL (and the STL, to some extent) leads me to believe that all
> publicly-expressed ideas are equally official, even the dumb
> ones.

OGL doesn't mean 'official', it means 'legal to plagiarize'.

The only thing OGL does is make it legal to publish material derived from
other people's work.  It  won't have any impact on the quality of the ideas.
People have less-than-stellar ideas all the time (can spellcasters really
case spells after their head comes off?).  The thing is, if an idea is bad,
nobody will use it.  Oh sure, a few might, but just like in a brainstorming
session, the bad ideas will quickly be cut from any work worth deriving
from.

-Brad

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