You seem to think that if I am right then nobody will be able to produce any new material for fear of treading on someone else's PI.
If you are right, I would have to stop publishing under the OGL as I could never know whether or not a random collection of letters: Merlynn, was PI or not.
I think that if you are right then no publisher will ever produce any decent material for our beloved system because they will have absolutely no protection for any PI they have designated!
I produced many pages of OGL, all 100% OGC, and I've had to PI only a few terms along the way (the names of the books, my company name, etc) and only once did I PI a name: Bensalem, a wizard from "long ago". If the OGL continues as it always has, I will continue to publish as I have. The reason I can continue on is because I know I'm not deriving from PI because I avoid books that have stupid PIed terms. There is no value in PIing a spell name, a feat name, or any other game term. PI people and places in books if you must, just keep those names out of the spell and feat names.
This is a tricky conundrum. The only solution I can think of is a PI repository, but that seems to have been snubbed by the rest of the list.
How do I enter the plot to a story (which I can PI) into a PI repository? How does one look up a plot entered into said repository? Now answer the same questions substituting dialogue for plot. Can be the one to PI the theme of good versus evil?
The solution is to only be responsible for PI in works you derive from directly.
Joe Mucchiello Throwing Dice Games http://www.throwingdice.com
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