I will agree that PI may be of little to no protection to names and terms that are fairly generic, or commonplace. Your example being Hero Points. The problem with your method to circumvent PI comes in when you try to use names which only exist within an existing copyrighted work.
For example, it would be very difficult to circumvent the declaration of "Gray Waste of Hades", without your source being an infringement of an existing copyrighted work. As an example, I did a search for that phrase on Google, and the only links that come up are D&D related.
but what about "gray waste of Hades"? IIRC, the ancient Greeks described Hades as a gray, featureless land. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a translation out there somewhere that refers to the "gray waste of Hades"--though i might have to dig a bit to find it.
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