<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">With the demise of the Mongoose RuneQuest licence, it naturally occurred to me to wonder whether this would have any effect on the MRQ1 SRDs. I couldn't imagine that it would, as one of the purposes of the OGL was to ensure that Open Content would always remain Open, otherwise OGL publishers would have no assurance that their products would not have to be abandoned at a moment's notice. Whether or not Mongoose were the originators of the Open Content, or holding a licence from the originator (Issaries) seems to be irrelevant. A number of third parties have jumped in (mainly on RPGnet) with claims that Mongoose never had the right to publish the SRDs containing Gloranthan names (Dragonewts, Crimson Bat, etc.), but I find those claims somewhat spurious as they would imply detailed knowledge of the contracts signed by Mongoose and Issaries.<div>
<br></div><div>All of my independent investigations have pointed to the same thing, the SRDs are as valid now as they were before the MRQ licence ended. Unless the SRDs were illegally published without Issaries' permission, the OGC therein will always be OGC. I'm still waiting to hear from Issaries and Mongoose on the matter.</div>
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