Re: Legality and WotC help with 3rdEd SJ

Howdy,

In our last episode, Dreamer said:
>In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Thu 11 May, Static wrote:
>> In our last episode, Dreamer said:
>> >I think the main idea is to get some 3rdEd SJ rules (which many
>> >people will then promptly change! [grin] ).  I don't think anyone
>> >here is trying to do this for the money.
>> 
>> Have you seen what's there already, as far as sj3e?  Beyond the Moons
>> has an sj3e page (http://www.spelljammer.org/sj3e/), and there are several
>> other sites that have sj3e systems of their own.  (BtM has a few other
>> mostly finished docs for this page too, but they need some polish.)
>
>I've certainly found it interesting.  Can we pinch several of
>your Skills and Feats to use in this conversion, please?
>
>The Spacefarer and Freefall Feats are the obvious ones.

    Of course!  That's what they're there for. :)  (With proper
credits, of course.)

>I've looked at a number of SJ sites, but they mostly refer to
>more or less varient SJ systems.

    Yeah, I have the same problem with them, which is why BtM doesn't
have an "official" stamp on any yet.  If this goes well, I may need
need to do some pinching myself. :)

>> As for legality, BtM--as an official site--can post almost anything
>> without bothering with the conversion license.
>
>What things should we avoid to prevent problems?

    I should mention that even the official sites can't post direct
copies of large chunks of text from real sources.  Under the official
site umbrella, I've put up... well, everything that's up, without any
problems.  One thing that definitely needs to be avoided is using
WotC's trademarks in OGC.  Can't have a product called "Spelljammer"
with an OGL in it, unless it's "published" by an official site.  The
official sites can use WotC trademarks, to a degree.  (I think this
means we can use other people's OGC in SJ products.)

    I hope that made sense, and was useful.

-Static

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