On Mon, 22 May 2006 22:51:18 +0100 Keith Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to use some of the OGC from Necromancer's The Tome of > Horrors (ToH), but was just looking for some opinions. > > 3. Any material contained in the "Credit" section of each monster > is not Open Game Content. See the "Note on the Credit Section" > below; > > For those that haven't seen a Credit, it looks like this: > > 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.
You can't use the info in the credit section, but you can use anything in the rest of the monster entry, including names, numbers, and anything else printed on the page. > To follow on, the book later sets out how they would like the > Section 15 declaration to be made, which is an entry for each > individual creature used. Since I cannot use anything within a > Credit, this means I cannot fulfill this (since I cannot use a name > if it appears in the Credit). So, how should this best be dealt > with? Is the license itself exempt from this decleration (thus > allowing me to use the actual creature name)? I wouldn't have > thought so. The method for setting out Section 15 is just advice > (there is a disclaimer stating that it is not legal advice), so > should I just add something like: > > Tome of Horrors, Copyright 2002, Necromancer Games, Inc.; Author > > Scott Greene. Additonal Authors: list of additional authors here. You should slavishly follow the method set out in the "advice" section of the book exactly; it happens to be a very clear and accurate description of how to use the OGC in that book. The "this is not legal advice" line is a legal disclaimer designed to protect the publisher in case something goes wrong. Spike Y Jones _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
