LeviKornelsen ,
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The single greatest comedy moment in OGL history was in one of the Scarred Lands books, where, in actual printed copies, the OGL was prefaced by the note:

"Put this in the smallest type possible; they might be able to force us to put it in, but we don't have to make it readable."

ARBco ,
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@LeviKornelsen You need to look up the Munchkin d20 books, which are the biggest middle finger to the OGL, with chapters like "This chapter is closed content except for words beginning with the letter P." or "This entire chapter is open content, except for the words 'dice', 'Munchkin, and 'the'." I'm not sure how contractually defensible it was, but it sure was a pisstake.

theredcaps ,
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When you think of it thought that is a really shit attitude to have - last years scandal aside the OGL as a license was really a generous and good thing for the community ... to try and be jerks about the few tiny requirements that the license requires is petty.

I don't disagree that it's funny that it got printed - but still a shit attitude that makes you question someone if they would go out of their way to try and push things to that limit.

martinralya ,
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@LeviKornelsen I quite enjoyed the early AEG book where they forgot to include it, so they added the OGL as a sticker. Can't recall the title, though.

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  • ARBco ,
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    @LeviKornelsen @martinralya AEG was one of the more generous users early on, at least, they had an odd extra bit of license that let you use their IP in a limited and weird way. Like, you could use Reis the pirate, for example, but they couldn't have the same writing or identity, IIRC? It was odd, mainly just usable in case you wanted to use some feat like "Hida's Fortitude" or the like without changing the name.

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