The “Gotchas” seem to be that when you publish via TAS you give up your Intellectual Property rights to what you wrote and that DTRPG (and Mongoose) take an additional 25% of the sale price – you get 50% instead of the usual 75%.
of Jon Brazer Enterprises summed up the many “gotchas” in a Mongoose forum posting:
#Traveller rpg license license#
What does this do to my favorite non-Third Imperium settings, like The Clement Sectorby Gypsy Knights Games or Orbitalby Zozer Games? GKG is in the process of moving all their content to an OGL version before the Mongoose Traveller First Edition license sunsets (which apparently will happen very quickly).ĭale McCoy Jr. This includes the names of all characters, races, and places and all gear, equipment and vessels the capitalized names and original names of places, countries, creatures, geographic locations, historic events, items, ships, and organizations presented in those books.
You are allowed to use the Traveller setting as presented in the current Traveller edition books published by Mongoose Publishing as well as any Mongoose-published book covering the official Third Imperium setting (for example, Spinward Marches). However, there is a major legal snag in the Community Content Agreement: In a move that I am sure Mongoose thought would alleviate gamer concerns, and working in conjunction with DriveThruRPG, a new Traveller’s Aid Society was created. No portion of this work may be reproduced in any form without written permission.” This is in stark contrast with the First Edition, which used the Open Game License (OGL).
On page 2 of the rulebook it states, “This game product contains no Open Game Content. I recently realized that the new Mongoose Traveller Second Edition is a closed license.