Using the monster names from WotC was a bit tricky so I tried to make the OGL stuff as easy as possible, and at the same time still make sure the original creators of the various monsters were directly credited, rather than just lumped in some 50-name list.
We hit on a pretty creative solution, I think (if I do say so myself :) ) Clark --- Doug Meerschaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Ogf-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
