To the best of my knowledge, the SW:RPG will explicitly State that it is a D20
game. To not do so would defeat the purpose of D20.
If you extract verbatim any rules modification from the starwars game, you risk
prosecution. The SW:RPG is in no way open, none at all. THey can do this,
because they are the Licensor, not the Licensee.
Incidently, you don't need the PHB to play a D20 game, you need the D20SRD which
is a seperate document. (although D&DPHB contains much of the same info.)
Corey Reid wrote:
> Not exactly. What they CAN do is create games that are D20 compatible but
> not release them under the OGL, since they own the material that the D20 SRD
> is based on. They don't need to use the SRD to create D20-compatible games,
> so the OGL doesn't have to enter into the equation.
>
> But currently, any and all D20 products must require the PHB. It would
> bother me if they started releasing D20 products that didn't need the PHB --
> unless they followed a similar set of rules for other genres. So they could
> have a SW PHB and require that all D20 products require either the D&D or
> the SW PHBs. That would work, I think.
>
> Was that enough abbreviations for you?
>
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> > From: John of the Collective
> > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 7:49 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Open_Gaming] "Open" Debate
> >
> > THey can make changes and close the work. IE, nothing in the Star Wars
> > game
> > is open, even though the game is D20. they abide by the D20 license, but
> > NOT
> > by the OGL.
> >
> > Damian wrote:
> >
> > > "Nicholas H.M. Caldwell" wrote:
> > > > When they use D20 as the game mechanics for a licensed property such
> > as
> > > > Star Wars.
> > >
> > > You can use d20 for a licensed property as well.
> > >
> > > > Given that D20 is extracted from D&D 3E, they can construct
> > > > anything they like from D&D 3E / their D20 content.
> > >
> > > But so can you. WotC must use everything in the D20SRD with the same
> > > requirements as you. I still don't see the difference.
> > >
> > > -Damian
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