> From: Faustus von Goethe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Remember the old "downstream liability" issue I was nattering
> on about once upon a time...
What he could try to do is cite his PD sources for his work. That way, a publisher
who wanted to check the bona fides of the material could do their own verification of
the claim.
For materials that are not PD, I suspect the best thing to do would be to hire someone
with no connection to hobby gaming (and who could enter an avidavit attesting to the
lack of prior knowledge of the source of the creatures involved), provide them the SRD
materials, and have a description "black-boxed". Then create a paper trail of the
project so that references could be independently checked by publishers ("why yes, I
did make up the description of the behir for the Open Creature Project ...").
Assuming a spotless track record, after a short period of time, I suspect the work
would become authoritative and most publishers wouldn't bother to actually check the
research; they'd just assume that the project itself had established it's own
credibility and proceed apace.
Combine this project with the already suggested "Open Creature Illustration" project
and you've got quite a significant contribution...
Ryan
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