>From: "Faustus von Goethe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Exactly the reason I am suggesting that it is in every publisher's best
>interest to make and provide an SRD - to distance their "open" content from
>their PI and Trademarks.
>
>Honestly, when I first posted about this subject, I thought the rationale
>was obvious. I had no idea there would be *any* disagreement.
WotC's d20SRD example *only* works if a company brings a pre-existing or
wholly original ruleset into the OGL. (Storyteller, for example.) WotC
releases the *SRD* under the OGL, but not the PHB. *THAT* is why they did
it.
For the rest of the publishers who *aren't* adapting another product to the
OGL, it rarely makes sense to make an SRD. Their in-product divisions
should be enough, and if they aren't then they would probably lose in court
for failing to properly identify PI and OGC in their product.
I really don't understand how "everything in the grey boxes that isn't on
the following list" is possible to misconstrue, though...
DM
P.S. Yes, I advocate that *everyone* who's meal ticket rides on this plays
it close to their chest. Open only what they have to, and what they'll be
confortable with everyone else using... the OGL gets all your game rules
anyway, and you help the "open game" network, so no one can complain anyway.
:)
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