Yes. I don't think there's any case for saying WotC should grant SRD use of terms like illithid, or the complicated societies they've built up around races like the drow, illithids, beholders, and sahaugin. But a "commonality of appearance" sounds more good than bad.
On 1/15/02 10:37 AM, lizard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote >I think that culture and physical appearance need to be separated. WOTC >loses very little distinctive IP if a mind flayer is described as "A >squid headed humanoid". It loses far more if the entire mind flayer >society, painstakingly built up over years, is opened. Same for >Beholders, Drow, and other monstrous cultures. -- Russ Taylor (http://www.cmc.net/~rtaylor/) "Make the bad man stop!" -- Sgt. Bilko _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
