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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of 
> Hal Whitewyrm
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 1:19 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Ogf-l] Familiars
> 
> 
> I have looked a few times and I still cannot find the 
> information on Familiars in the SRD. While it is supposed to 
> be under the Sorcerer class description (and it is referenced 
> in the Wizard class description) there is nothing there to be found.

I know your question has already been answered, but I want to raise a
small nag: why is it "supposed to be under the Sorceror class
description"?

The answer, I expect, is because that's where it's found in the PHB. And
not to pick on you, but this makes a good opportunity to reissue the
oft-repeated advice: "Put away your WotC books." When you're building
OGL and d20 products, it's simply the wrong frame of mind to think of
the WotC books as "correct" in anyway. The SRD is what it is in its own
right, with its own organization and layout and content. It's the ONLY
"correct" thing. Don't look at anything else. If you want to be sure
that you're safely complying with the OGL, then act as if the WotC books
don't exist. That way, your ideas won't be contaminated by any non-OGC
material; and you can more honestly claim that you have a clean
derivation chain for all your work.

Sorry to use you as an example; but there are new people on these lists
all the time, so this advice bears repeating now and then, and you
presented an opportunity.

(Now if you're NOT building OGC but are simply using the SRD as an
electronic reference, as some do, then it can get REALLY frustrating
when the SRD organization deviates from the core book organization...)

Martin L. Shoemaker

Martin L. Shoemaker Consulting, Software Design and UML Training
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