Developer's vs. Consumer's POV. Re: [Open_Gaming] Consolidated Remarks

[Doug Meerschaert]

This is just a semantics point.  Feel free to delete this message, and please flame
me (off list) if this upsets you.  (You can even send me a polite "flame" if you
want...)

Rogers Cadenhead wrote:

> >From a consumer's standpoint, if I'm reading something that's part closed
> and part open, I'd like the smaller part to be an appendix (or something
> similar), not a bunch of small sidebars throughout the work. For example,
> a closed module could be published with an open section at the end describing
> new monsters and spells that can be shared.

I think that would be a *developer's* standpoint.  A *consumer* doesn't care about
the OGL--she cares about a usable work, and just wants to be able to slap "Snakemen
of blahblahblah" into her game..  A *developer* cares about the OGL, because he wants
to utilize the cool rules for "Snakemen of Blahblahblah" in one of his own projects.


DM



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