I would go with #2, despite my earlier expressed admiration for your inventiveness in coming up with #1. Here's why.
I don't really see the preference for S.15 citation as being an incentive or disincentive for reuse of the monsters. If a producer wants to reuse a monster, I think they will no matter which format is chosen. By going with #2, however, you greatly increase proper citation in S.15. Despite you explicit instructions included in your original and revised #1, someone at some point would probably become confused and make a mistake in the S.15 attribution. A tangential issue is that S.15 under the revised #1 could become very lengthy with reuse of just a half-dozen or so monsters. Again, I don't think it would keep a producer from reusing a monster, but if their OGL page now takes up 2 pages in the product instead of 1, it could cause some irritation at the least. I could see the situation, however, where a producer decided to cut one monster from the final manuscript (if the monster was not pivotal to the adventure and a similar creature from the SRD was available for substitution), just to keep his OGL page at 1 page length. In the end, I really hope that anyone who reuses a monster from the Tome of Horrors gives proper credit to the original authors. As I believe Alec suggested, perhaps a simple "Please include the full credit citation as listed in each monster's description somewhere in your publication" would suffice. It seems as if every producer so far has been polite and respective of other producer's contributed OGC, contacting them before reusing their OGC and giving thanks in their credits pages, and I would expect that any producer reusing creatures from the Tome will gladly credit the original authors as well. By the way, I love your intention of footnoting the publication in which each monster originally appeared. That will be the first line I read in every description. Mac __________________________________________________ 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
