| mekka2000 |
Hello,
One of my player used to play a shadow fury from MCA Archetypes ( http://mcarchetype.wikispaces.com/Shadow+Fury ) until his PC died at level 6.
I liked the concept and the class was nice but I wanted to revise it to make it more "fun". The silent rage is the main point of the class but not very useable.
So I made my version (maybe it's worse or overpowered, I'm not saying I'm better than the good people that worked hard on MCA Archetypes !), and wanted to release it to playtest and maybe include it in a project I have.
But on the MCA Archetypes website there is no OGL, and due to the pages hosted on wikispace, it's said to be Creative Commons License 3.0
There's a disclaimer saying :
"This should be under open Gaming license rather than cc 3.0, the reason being that it uses material from pathfinder and it's only legal to do so under ogl. Both creative commons 3.0 and ogl, both forbid the addition of terms, so anyone who remixes in the current state of this must either break cc 3.0, ogl or both. here is a copy of d20pfsrds ogl http://www.d20pfsrd.com/extras/community-use . I do not mean to in any way wreck your day or your project, I would just prefer it to be legal to use."
How do we have to understand it ?
Are MCA Archetypes illegal due to the CC3.0 not respecting OGL ?
For my variation of the shadow fury class, in fact, except the names "shadow fury" and "silent rage", "shadow jump" and also the "shadow skin" and "shadow jump" abilities that are a direct copy-paste, there's nothing more from the MCA archetype, I build all my text based on Unchained rogue and unchained barbarian abilities descriptions.
So, if I want to release my class as OGL, is it ok this way (silent rage, shadow jump, and so on... are rather generic terms...), do I need to rephrase the 2 abilities that are directly taken from the MCA class, do I need to change all the names (example : "dark jump" instead of "shadow jump", I dont like it but..) ?