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<blockquote data-quote="fissionessence" data-source="post: 4689455" data-attributes="member: 63357"><p>I don't know if this is the correct thread in which to ask this, but while we're waiting for more updates:</p><p></p><p>I know that I can't 'redefine terms' as per the GSL . . . so I can't say elves are actually aquatic beings with tentacles and 100 claws; and I can't say that a staff is actually a small piece of wood with a long blade coming out . . . but what about using defined words and creating a <em>new and separate</em> definition? </p><p></p><p>As a specific example, could I take the word 'aura', which is defined in the glossary of the Monster Manual, and use it as the power word for some new class (as in: "This class's powers are called auras")? How about a class called the totemist? Could it create class features/powers called 'totems', even though that's what primal implements (PH2) are called? These definitions don't 'redefine' or directly conflict with their existing definitions, but I don't want to get a cease-and-desist when I could have just come up with secondary, if suboptimal, terms for these things.</p><p></p><p>~ fissionessence</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fissionessence, post: 4689455, member: 63357"] I don't know if this is the correct thread in which to ask this, but while we're waiting for more updates: I know that I can't 'redefine terms' as per the GSL . . . so I can't say elves are actually aquatic beings with tentacles and 100 claws; and I can't say that a staff is actually a small piece of wood with a long blade coming out . . . but what about using defined words and creating a [i]new and separate[/i] definition? As a specific example, could I take the word 'aura', which is defined in the glossary of the Monster Manual, and use it as the power word for some new class (as in: "This class's powers are called auras")? How about a class called the totemist? Could it create class features/powers called 'totems', even though that's what primal implements (PH2) are called? These definitions don't 'redefine' or directly conflict with their existing definitions, but I don't want to get a cease-and-desist when I could have just come up with secondary, if suboptimal, terms for these things. ~ fissionessence [/QUOTE]
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