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Greetings,
I'm currently in the tentative first stages of implementing the pathfinder core rules from http://www.d20pfsrd.com/ in the Python programming language. Before I get too deeply into it, I would like to ask some questions of the community and possibly of any wandering Paizo peeps.
Firstly, I am curious as to whether this has been done yet? I've searched a bit, but haven't found any indication that it has. I would be most happy if there turned out to already be an open source project going on somewhere.
Secondly, I am a computer science student and insufferably illiterate in legalese - as far as I understand, anything under the OGL should be fair game for implementing? Are there any pitfalls I'm blundering into that I should know about? I don't plan to copy any setting specific material, only the rules released under the OGL. Also, if it turns out that my implementation is viable to build a game upon, what problems would I run into if I decided to release it "indie" style with regards to the aforementioned OGL? My plan is to stay as faithful to the rules as possible, although I already know of several problems that will require "house rulings".
I will probably come up with more questions in the next few days depending on the answers I get. Also, before anyone get unduly excited I must emphasize that I've barely started and that I'm only one university student who also has to study while doing this :)