Publishing Supplements
Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 2:22 am
What systems allow for one to publish your own supplement without having to go through the system's company? I know the d20 license allows this, but there's got to be more.
BESM, I think, there's a tri-stat version of the OGL. Not the d20 licence, it does go through WotC (and it's long gone anyway).
Ideally the OGL is just a statement of how the law works in regards games anyway, you can do that with any game by rewriting the flavour text and redoing the layout. Put your favourite game's mechanics in with the OGL licence, changing the derivative statements at the end to suit. Though EGG got sued for crazy stuff and lost back in the day, because "character" and "player" were ruled as product identity.
So legally, anything at all. You can publish a monopoly supplement as long as you can convince the judge no one would ever mistake it for an officially endorsed product when Hasbro sues you. Which really depends on how much money you have for lawyers compared to them.