<< What is PI? We don't know. It's either stuff you're forbidden from using, or stuff that is functionally not in the source when reusing. >>
Something I brought up before: Based on the 3.5 SRD I believe WotC interprets PI as being terms that are forbidden from any work that derives off of the work that claims the terms as PI. The term in question does not even have to exist in a section of OGC, or even appear in the work at all. In the past, WotC didn't need to have an interpretation as to what PI was because the SRD was solely intended to provide to publishers all content that was OGC from WotC. When Ryan was still with WotC, he probably convinced them that PI wasn't necessary to protect their interests (after all, 3rd parties could only reference off the SRD). As time passed, staff began to get cut, and the management cycled, the new people in charge believed that PI was necessary. Since they couldn't add PI to the existing SRD (at the time), they decided to implement it with the release of the 3.5 SRD. After all, I haven't noticed many of the following terms actually appear in the 3.5 files. I just noticed Carrion Crawler is on the list (mostly because I had run an adventure including one), and Carrion Crawler doesn't actually appear in the 3.5 SRD (while it was in 3.0). The following is identified as PI in the 3.5 SRD: Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, Dungeon Master, Monster Manual, d20 System, Wizards of the Coast, d20 (when used as a trademark), Forgotten Realms, Faer�n, character names (including those used in the names of spells or items), places, Red Wizard of Thay, Heroic Domains of Ysgard, Ever-Changing Chaos of Limbo, Windswept Depths of Pandemonium, Infinite Layers of the Abyss, Tarterian Depths of Carceri, Gray Waste of Hades, Bleak Eternity of Gehenna, Nine Hells of Baator, Infernal Battlefield of Acheron, Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus, Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia, Seven Mounting Heavens of Celestia, Twin Paradises of Bytopia, Blessed Fields of Elysium, Wilderness of the Beastlands, Olympian Glades of Arborea, Concordant Domain of the Outlands, Sigil, Lady of Pain, Book of Exalted Deeds, Book of Vile Darkness, beholder, gauth, carrion crawler, tanar'ri, baatezu, displacer beast, githyanki, githzerai, mind flayer, illithid, umber hulk, yuan-ti. -- Scott Fantages Studios: http://www.fantages-studios.com Publisher of Wrestle, F100 and The Rya'mier Campaign Setting _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
