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Originally Posted by Caedwyr The thing is, a large number of the demons they've included are strongly based on existing mythologies. The Succubus (and Incubi) for example are mentioned in religious texts dating back to the 1400's at least. Sure a number of the iconic demon and devil names are from D&D, but the creatures they were inspired by largely came from other mythologies. From the list of other monsters they seem to be claiming as their own (Tarasque, it looks like they are trying to grab quite a bit under their control. |
The short answer is that you will need to create your own Devils and Demons.
But there is a worse implication. The license intent is that you don't redefine any of the licensed terms. So what is a Demon defined as? If you look at page 52 you will see there are a couple of paragraph before any Demon entries that explain what Demons are.
So does this means that if you write about Demons for a 4th edition product it has to be under that SPECIFIC cosmology? If you are say writing a old testament or babylonian product that you can't call their evil supernatural beings Demons because those two cultures have a different definition (but similar) for Demons. The same for Devils? You can't even EXPLAIN the default cosmology because that would result in a violation of the prohibition of copying any text.
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OGL the reality will come out in the months to come as Wizards and the 3rd party publishers interact. It could be that Wizards wants keep up all in lock step with the marketing of fourth edition default world and all. It could be Wizards doesn't really care as long as publishers limit themselves to expansions, settings and modules and not try to recreate the rulebook.