On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:26:35 -0500 "DarkTouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Venca is the undead diety of greyhawk. Wizards releases a book that > is OGC with Venca listed as PI so I can't use him in my product. > This same book also has a number of spells in it that are directly > related to our undead god. The names of these spells which are > things like 'Venca's Hand of doom' and 'Venca's horrid vomit' are > also listed as PI. > > The question is: Do I _KNOW_ that the spells which are in a > completely different chapter from the Diety Venca are in fact > related to the diety? Or for my purposes are they just nameless > spells and nameless dieties?
If the publisher simply listed "Venca" as PI, and did not also list "spell names" or "spell names that include the word Venca" as PI, then you'd be able to call your spells "Hand of Doom" and "Horrid Vomit". There is a parallel here to the fact that there are spells in the Player's Handbook called "Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion" and "Bigby's Interposing Hand," and there are spells in the SRD called "Magnificent Mansion" and "Interposing Hand", and the former are off-limits, while the latter are Open Content. (The parallelism is inexact, because WotC didn't use PI to accomplish this, but it's instructive nonetheless.) Spike Y Jones _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
