Brad Thompson wrote: > It does matter when mixing WotC-released materials with 3rd > party stuff. I will often pick up a few 3rd party modules > and integrate them into a campaign. I find it hard to > believe that an encounter with a creature as sophisticated as > a mind flayer could be adequately explained without > infringing on WotC's rights, unless such an encounter was > essentially with a different creature that just happened to > have the same stats. And if I have to rework the encounter > from scratch so I can use a real Illithid, why did I buy it > in the first place?
Will this situation change once the D20STL allows you to make specific references to the MM? I understand you can't repeat the text of the MM in your adventure but might not there be a way to adequately describe the encounter and then say, "for more information on the "Mind Flayer" please reference pp. 136-7 in the MM published by WoTC" ? I realize that the guide says you "should not" use specific page references but that's different than "shall not", right? Also it says that you may explicitly reference chapter, heading and sub-heading titles. The heading title in the MM is the name of the monster itself. So you could say "reference the Mind Flayer Society sub-heading under the Mind Flayer heading in the MM for more information." (The example language is awkward, just trying to make my point) Since Illithid is not a heading or sub-heading title, you still can't use that term without some other form of permission. It seems to me that you would be able to use the Mind Flayer effectively this way. You wouldn't be able to create the "Slayer's Guide to the Mind Flayer" but you could throw them into an encounter without too much trouble. Weldon Dodd [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
