Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 4307525" data-attributes="member: 42582">TimeOut, that was a good series of posts.I'm not sure that this is true. Saying "When playing this game, disregard the rules for falling and instead use those for plummetting" is not defining, redefining or altering the definition of a 4E Reference.You probably cannot say "When a character falls, disregard the rules for falling" - because the SRD states that "Differing forms of a 4E Reference, such as a plural form, are assumed to be part of that 4E Reference," and "falls" probably counts as a different form of "falling." So instead you'd have to say something like "If a character goes over the edge of a precipice, or Crashes, or does something similar, then disregard the rules for Falling and instead use those for Plumetting."You are not obliged to use the template: all the words that occur in it are 4E References, I think, and the GSL permits you to use them whether or not they occur in the template.The templates are simply an additional permission, to allow Licensees to produce material that is visually compatible with 4E. Hence the advice in the SRD Usage Guide to "Use the stat block templates identified and included in the SRD as guidelines (not constraints) for producing your own original content requiring such formatting. Since your content will resemble like content in the Core Rulebooks, it will be more readily usable."</blockquote>