RE: [Open_Gaming] Consolidated Remarks

[Mathew Gray]

Lizard said:
"This relates to something I've been considering. I will often buy a
supplement just to get a few pages of material I really want. Under OGL,
however, I (or someone else) could 'harvest' the open gaming material
from published sources, and put it on a web site for anyone to use.
Thus, any new monsters, spells, sub-rules, magic items, etc, which
appear in commercial modules but which are OGLed could end up on such a
site."

And in fact, this WILL happen.  Look at the 3e D&D sites that exist which
have consolidated information over the past year.  This is unavoidable.  If
you publish open content, it will get archived.  HOWEVER, there are ways to
make this LESS attractive.  Depending on how things work out in the end, you
may be able to keep "enough" closed that all people get are fairly
meaningless "raw numbers" that anyone can come up with.  The creative
aspects may very well be protected if you choose to do so.

-Mathew Gray
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