• Neato@ttrpg.network
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    6 months ago

    This includes all class features, monsters, rules expressions and anything that isn’t trademarked as intellectual property. Essentially, you get mechanics for cover but not Beholders, martial archetypes but not the city and denizens of Baldur’s Gate.

    Is this even necessary? Isn’t all of that stuff already non-copyrightable?

    • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      You are correct. They do this because corporations in the past have sued over even though rules, etc. are fair use. When they first started the OGL they gained a lot of goodwill from the community.