Okay, couple of comments:
Potation is still in there, do we have a definition?
Umm... I would prefer to see the license copyright of the Open Gamin
Foundation rather than WotC. oh well.
Product Identity... I assume that not All the things listed are
automatically.. only those that are defined closed. (What if I want to
Open artifacts and spell descriptions.)
Thats it for me. (Newlines would be nice, and help readability, but
thats just formatting).
-John
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