At 05:11 PM 1/21/2002, Ryan S. Dancey wrote: >(Although, as I said >before, they could be black-boxed. If you started with someone who had >never seen an illustration of a Mind-Flayer, and gave them the SRD >description, and they gave you back an illustration of an octopus-headed >humanoid, you'd be in the clear, since your work was not derivative of >WotC's copyright).
So, all D20 publishers need to fund an experiment whereby they hire a thouand random artists from assorted art schools, hand them the SRD, and say, "Draw up a creature which woul fit this description". We'd need to teach them the very basics of D&D mechanics, i.e, "What is an Aberration?", "What is a slam attack", without letting them see a D&D manual, and we'd need signed affadavits that they've never played D&D or any other RPG. Given enough artists and enough time, sooner or later, someone would spontaneously recreate the "official" image, or close enough for government work. This is, of course, somewhat (totally) tongue in cheek. _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
