I love OGL products like 1001 Spells but...


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... as a publisher, I get a little indigestion when I see Section 15 take up half a column by itself. One of the things about d20pfsrd.com that is so great is that you can hunt down the original source of the items pretty easily. But if you want to use 1001 Spells as a publishing resource, Section 15 is going to eat Hoboken.

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D20pfsrd.com should be including the entire section 15 for a product. That is part of the license piece.


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You haven't seen Razor Coast, have you?

By the way, in my copy of 1001 Spells, Section 15 takes up an entire column, not just half.


I think Necropunk's section 15 was about a column in it's own right.
I see it like a bibliography/works cited at the end of a big dissertation or thesis paper.


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Christina Stiles wrote:
D20pfsrd.com should be including the entire section 15 for a product. That is part of the license piece.

Right, but it has a separate citation for each item, a la Tome of Horrors. 1001 Spells has the dissertation bibliography.


d20pfsrd.com also has a full section 15 which is horribly unwieldly.

It's currently at 731 entries. In general, if you want to cite something on d20pfsrd.com you might want to site the source document and not the site.


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But if you do that, make sure you hunt down the original source and verify the exact text you are using.

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RJGrady wrote:
... as a publisher, I get a little indigestion when I see Section 15 take up half a column by itself. One of the things about d20pfsrd.com that is so great is that you can hunt down the original source of the items pretty easily. But if you want to use 1001 Spells as a publishing resource, Section 15 is going to eat Hoboken.

Here's the thing: my Section 15's are crazy. Today I'm finishing up the Book of Heroic Races: Reapers. How many different books are referenced in the section 15: 33. How many were actually referenced used in making the actual book itself: 4, the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, Advanced Player's Guide, Ultimate Magic, and Ultimate Combat. That's it. Nothing was taken from any existing OGL material at all. Its all brand new material. But because the author made new subdomains that included spells from Ultimate Magic and Ultimate Combat (none of them reprinted within, just referenced), I have to include the section 15 from those two books plus the APG since it has subdomains. And there are other things we provide rules for where the rules are included in one of those 4 books. So we have to include them.

And its only going to get worse the more that new books are produced. The best I can say is ... get use to it. There is no minimum on the font size of the OGL.

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