Martin wrote:
WotC owns the copyright on the material. They have opened that material under a licensing agreement. Under the terms of that licensing agreement, in order to use that material, you must also place derivative material under the licensing agreement.Used SRD Open Content (which admittedly they authored, but then declared Open Content), and created a game called Star Wars using a lot of Open Content and a new "HP" systems /derived/ from Open Content, yet everyone appears to be saying that it isn't Open Content.
But WotC still owns the copyright on the material. They don't need to license the material from themselves. Therefore, they do not need to abide by the terms of the license when using that material, because they do not need to use the license in order to use that material.
Frankly, I don't care, because I consider the Wounds/Vitality system to be a poorly designed system that doesn't accomplish its design goals. Or, in fact, accomplish much of anything in terms of usefulness. The weight of extra bookkeeping and complexity outweighs whatever minor benefits you might imagine you're gleaning from a meaningless distinction.
Justin Bacon
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