--- Joe Mucchiello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Steve Creech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Essentially everything that was TSR/Wotc IP. I took a look, and > > unless I missed it, they are indeed gone. I predicted that beholders > > and mind flayers would be gone when they came out with the revised > > SRD spells and saw they were protecting IP. > > This is different. The names of wizards in the spell lists makes sense > to protect. The monsters don't.
Why not? They created them out of whole cloth, why shouldn't they protect that? The wizards' names can be used in > novels and future products and preventing their dilusion makes sense. So can monsters. Protecting their dilution makes sense as well. > But WotC is not going to make a Slayer's Guide to Kuo Toa or a Return > to the Dungeon of the Beholder adventure. Why not? > These monsters simply cease > to exist outside of the MM once they are removed from the SRD. Do they? What are > they really protecting if they don't plan to use them? They're protecting things that they created, and that are integral to the feel of dungeons and dragons (as opposed to things that are integral to the D20 rules). ===== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fred Wolke - Homo Cervicalgia __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
