On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Sixten Otto wrote: > I don't necessarily mind single-negative, but I think that double-negative > is needlessly confusing. "Whatever doesn't not appear in the list below" is > equivalent to "whatever appears in the list below," so why not use the latter?
I'm follwing this up again, because I think I may see what Sexton is saying. Here's my orginal text again: The following listed content is taken from the Creature Collection, the Creature Collection 2: Dark Menagerie, or Relics & Rituals, all published by Sword & Sorcery Studios and used with specific permission. This content is designated as Product Identity except for that material listed after the item which is noted as Open Game Content. [list of items] Are you saying there's a double negative in there because you believe that rather than identifying what specfic elements are PI in the list that would follow, I identify the specific elements that are OGC? Implying that the list is really a list of OGC rather than PI? That's not actually correct. The list of items that would follow would actually be a dual list of both PI & OGC. It would identify the PI the same way OGC is initially identified, by a general statement that each of the listed items is completely PI. Then it lists the specific elements of those PIed items that would be considered PI due to the general statement and states that these elements are actually OGC. I agree that it's not the best way of wording things, but as I said I only did it that way in an attempt to preverse the way things are actually written up in both CC & RR (can't speak for CC2). And I think I failed in the attempt anyway. I still turn the formerly non-OGC content into PI, which is more easily accomplished and clearer with Sixten's language. anyway, just trying to forestall a discussion on double negative that I probably shouldn't have started in the first place. :) alec _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
