<<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.
>>
Yes, there is. Particularly if you want to make computerized support products for your gaming supplements. Take your most recent publication: if you had come up with nifty names for the tracks and PI'd them, then without re-releasing large chunks of your product, re-written, then nobody could readily make a "character customization" program that was readily compatible with your book. They'd have to make the product totally stand-alone.
There may not be many other advantages, but there are things like that -- assuming that you consider such a limited monopoly an advantage. Generally, I'd think that people producing support products would drive the sales of the primary product.
But not everyone sees things that way.
Lee
