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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jraynack" data-source="post: 4415137" data-attributes="member: 13894">As a 3PP, I can tell you that proper names of any kind (monsters [Cephalyx], spells [Withering Hand of Lux], NPCs [John Gould], countries [Qwal], magic items [Hand of Vecna], etc.) are product identity.  But names that are into the everyday world is not (dragon, magic wand, loch ness monster, a feat called run, or a spell called fireball).Now, under the OGL, companies could allow you to use their names and some did - that is dictatated in the OGL and Open Game Content of the product.As to the monsternomicon, you can use the stats, but not the name.  As for Chirugery (Su)(you must change the name since they made that name up), I would do one of two things: keep the ability as is (drudge is fairly common name that might be used as a monster) BUT make a drudge with different stats and abilities; Secondly, keep the ability, use a different monster name in place of drudge and use the replaced name on a drudge statistics block.I am not a lawyer, but if you are still confused, I would simply contact Privateer Press.</blockquote>