While I absolutely agree with Faustus that the necessary "game-mechanical" content is Open to make the creature technically useful, it comes back to my having to rename the creature to use it in my own works. I would prefer to use the accepted name - so people can know just where it came from. This is why I dislike removing the names of the monsters from the pool of OGC. I understand pulling a few limited names for PI purposes - as a previous poster pointed out, the Mithril Golem really should be PI, but the Wood Golem probably shouldn't.
I again point out that if you make it neither PI nor OGC, it is plain old vanilla Normal Copyrighted Material. If you really don't want to open it up, leave it as Normal Copyrighted Material instead of PI unless it is somehow truly integral to your campaign setting (Mithril Golem is, Wood Golem isn't). Either way, nobody else can touch it without your permission, and it makes the designation of PI actually mean something. This is perhaps a matter of my own personal taste, but in my mind, designating all copyrighted material as PI is pretty much the same as posting a message to a message board in all caps. When you selectively use caps in a message, you get emphasis. But, WHEN ALL YOU DO IS USE CAPS, THE EFFECT OF EMPHASIS IS QUICKLY LOST AND REPLACED BY ANNOYANCE ON THE PART OF THE READER (I will stop now because I think the point is made). In the same way, when you save the PI designation for the truly important and unique parts, it calls attention to them in a positve fashion. When you call ALL of your Normal Copyrighted Material "PI," it loses the effect of calling extra attention to it and ALSO annoys, hence calling attention to your material in a negative fashion. --The Sigil P.S. - Please read through all 6 of my posts before replying. Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
