Keith Robinson wrote:
So, am I right in thinking that the stat blocks for these creatures
are OGC, but their names (and any other info in the Credit section) is
not? That is to say, I can use the stat block, so long as I use a
different monster name? That's my reading of it.
My understanding--not having ever looked at ToH--is that you can go
right ahead and use monster names, as long as they also appear somewhere
other than the "Credit" section. After all, you wouldn't expect to have
to redact all occurrences of the word "originally" (or "in", "is", or
"and" for that matter), so why should a word like "The Haunt" get
special treatment?
If a trademarkable word is declared OGC, then it's OGC, even if it also
happens to appear in a section that isn't OGC. Unless Clark marked it
as a trademark (or someone else's trademark) or gave some other specific
indication that you CAN'T use it, you can use it. (That is, after all,
what saying "monster names are OGC" means.)
DM
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