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Savage Species Shocker!
T-Willard:
Special permission is not that hard to get. I've been lucky and never turned down, even allowed to use PI monsters names in flavor text and history. I got to used Urban Arcana before it made the SRD, and stuff from Future that isn't in the SRD, and even allowed to print NPC's with Faerun backgrounds and feats, providing I didn't reprint the feats.
WotC is surprisingly easy to work with, providing you recognise it's thier toys you are playing with. :)
Zalmoxis:
How would one go about asking?
ColonelHardisson:
--- Quote from: Roudi ---In a lot of cases, using someone else's OGC isn't a big problem. Believe me, there are less publishers who obfuscate their OGC declarations than there are publishers who simply declare entire books as open gaming content.
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That's true. But it seems like many, if not most, of the best-known d20/OGL publishers, the guys who put out some of the best work, obfuscate their OGC.
--- Quote from: Roudi ---So why do most publishers not reuse each other's OGC that often? Why do some of them even "reinvent" material instead of using an open content version of nearly the same thing?
It's mostly a matter of ego.
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Yeah, that's what it seems like to me. It's ironic, given that WotC gave away a helluva lot, but then some of those who took advantage of the opportunity seem jealous of anyone using their work for free (essentially).
--- Quote from: Zalmoxis ---I wish more WotC stuff was OGC though.
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I wish that they'd at least release more of it into the SRD, where it would probably do even more good.
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