Hi again! Here is the example material I provide in the book so that others can see how to do it. Notice also that I agree not to claim a breach from our standpoint if the instructions are followed properly. Yes, I am actually putting this in the book.
Comments and suggestions are appreciated. Clark Reusing the Monsters in This Tome This book contains tons of Open Game Content. Basically, all the monster names, stats, descriptions, combat information�everything on any monster page except the art and the stuff in the �Credit� section�is all Open Game Content! We want other producers of d20 products to use these great monsters in their products. To help make that happen, here are instructions on how to reuse the creatures contained in this book and comply with the Open Game License from our perspective. Our Promise: If these instructions are followed properly, Necromancer Games, Inc., will not allege you have failed to comply with the license from our standpoint. How To Do It Just in case, here is a brief review of the basics of using Open Game Content under version 1.0 of the Open Game License Whenever you copy, modify or distribute Open Game Content you have to update Section 15 of your Copyright Notice with the exact Copyright Notice from the source from which you are using material (see section 6 of the license, above). That�s why we all have to list: �Open Game License v 1.0a (or whatever version you are using) Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.� and �System Reference Document Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, based on original material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson� in Section 15 of our products�because we all used the Open Game License and some content from the System Reference Document in creating our products. Here is the important part. If you want to use Open Game Content from a source other than the System Reference Document (like, for example, if you want to use a monster from this book) you have to update the Section 15 Copyright Notice of your product with the copyright information from that other source. Now we have the basics out of the way. To use Open Game Content from this book you have to take our Section 15 Copyright Notice information and put it exactly as it is in the Section 15 Copyright Notice of your book. So now lets take a look at our Section 15 Copyright Notice for this book. It says: �[Insert name(s) of monster(s) used in place of this bracketed text] from the Tome of Horrors Copyright 2002, Necromancer Games, Inc.; [see the individual monster entry or entries for additional Section 15 information and insert that information here in place of this bracketed text when reusing].� What does that mean? Simple. To construct the copyright notice for your product based on Open Game Content from this book, you have to follow the direction in the bracketed text. Doing so, you go to the specific monster page that you are using and get the monster name from the top of the page and the rest of the information there from the Copyright Notice section at the bottom of the page and put it in place of the bracketed text. It couldn�t be easier. But just in case, let�s do a few examples. Example Let�s say you wanted to use the kamadan in your new d20 product. Here is how you would cite it. You know its name�the kamadan�so you plug that into the first part of bracketed text, replacing it, so that it now reads: �Kamadan from the Tome of Horrors Copyright 2002, Necromancer Games, Inc.;� Alright. To deal with replacing the next bracketed text, you to go to the Copyright Notice section of the kamadan entry and there you find: �Author Scott Greene, based on original material by Nick Louth.� Now all you have to do is replace the final bracketed text with that information and you are done! It should now look like this: �Kamadan from the Tome of Horrors Copyright 2002, Necromancer Games, Inc.; Author Scott Greene, based on original material by Nick Louth.� That is what you now have to put in your Section 15 Copyright Notice, since you used that Open Game Content that we distributed. Wasn�t that easy? Using Multiple Monsters The monsters in this book are so cool that we are sure you will want to use lots of them in your products. Does that mean you have to do a whole new entry for every monster? No! If you use multiple monsters, just string the monster names, author information and original material information together, separating each by commas. You only have to list our book once. Here is an example of how to do it: Let�s say you want to use the dark creeper, the pech, the mobat and the shadow demon in your product. You go to the respective monster pages and you compile the names of the monsters and the respective Copyright Notice information for each of the monsters: � Dark Creeper, Author Scott Greene, based on original material by Rik Shepard. � Pech, Author Scott Greene, based on original material by Gary Gygax. � Mobat, Author Scott Greene and Clark Peterson, based on original material by Gary Gygax (notice that this is the first time the author is someone other than just Scott Greene) � Shadow Demon, Author Scott Greene, based on original material by Neville White. Rather than doing a new notice for each monster you use and listing authors or original material creators more than once, you can do one big one listing each monster, listing each author (though not repeating any if they authored more than one monster) and listing each person who created the original material (again not repeating) like this: �Dark Creeper, Pech, Mobat and Shadow Demon from the from the Tome of Horrors Copyright 2002, Necromancer Games, Inc.; Authors Scott Greene and Clark Peterson, based on original material by Rik Shepard, Gary Gygax and Neville White.� There you have it! Not only a ton of Open Game Content, but instructions on how to use it properly too! If you have any questions about how to use the Open Game Content contained in this book, please email Clark Peterson at www.necromancergames.com. Disclaimer The above is not legal advice. It is a helpful summary to aid you in reusing the content contained in this book. Though the above language warrants that Necromancer Games, Inc., will not allege you have failed to comply with the Open Game License if you follow the above instruction, this does not prevent third parties from possibly making such a claim. If you have concerns, please consult an attorney. Clark ===== http://www.necromancergames.com "3rd Edition Rules, 1st Edition Feel" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
