--- Michael Cortez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think we can state: "Mind Flayer - Man shaped creature with a head that resembles an octopus" w/o violating the license, because that description doesn't appear in any OGC, therefore it's derivitive of closed content, because as the arguments here have proven -- it can't be inferred by the description provided in the SRD...<
Looking at the SRD and thinking of all the tenacled creatures with mouths in the real-world, I mainly think of squids, octopi and jellyfish. And I'm not certain of jellyfish. "A mind flayer lashes its enemies with the tentacles ringing its mouth." I also see in the SRD that the Mind Flayer has a decent movement rate (30 ft.) and >could< be humanoid in appearence of frame, humans, elves and half-orcs have decent movement rates (30 ft.) as well... but it doesn't mean that the Flayer can't have extra appendages. "An aberration has a bizarre anatomy, strange abilities, an alien mindset, or any combination of the three." I also see that the description, from the SRD, of the Mind Flayer doesn't say that >it isn't< a humanoid, squid-headed creature. "Mind flayers speak Undercommon but prefer to communicate telepathically." So if I come up with an adventure with Mind Flayers, call them Mind Flayers, infer their mental greatness and say they have slaves, eat brains and are squid-headed, I think I can be in compliance with the license. Now, if I said the same thing and called my mind flayers "Illithids" I'd be in trouble. -Richard deMorris, that Viking Games guy... ===== For Nicodemus & Anastasia... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
