Getting Monster Manual II added to the SRD

[Bacris]

All Dreamscarred Press creatures are open content. Specific creature names, such as Hemanyaliz the pathos dragon, are product identity.

Just FYI

Personally, I'd like to see the gem dragons in the SRD, but not in their 3.0 or poorly revised 3.5 versions...

 

[Sir Elton]

Which part was that?

Elementalism. I'm going to convert it to Dynamic Spellcasting for my homebrew.

Elton.

 

[Sir Elton]

All Dreamscarred Press creatures are open content. Specific creature names, such as Hemanyaliz the pathos dragon, are product identity.

Just FYI

Personally, I'd like to see the gem dragons in the SRD, but not in their 3.0 or poorly revised 3.5 versions...

Actually, I think I have them figured out.

 

[Mark]

Mark, sorry I forgot yours. I actually liked them. Then again, 5 adventures in four or five years is hardly taking the market by storm.

Well, I'm a one man company so you probably won't need much help taking me out behind the woodshed for my shirking behavior.

 

[Voadam]

Personally, I'd like to see the gem dragons in the SRD, but not in their 3.0 or poorly revised 3.5 versions...

If they were in the srd Dreamscarred could present alternative versions of them and expansion using the flavor found in the srd similar to what has been done with psionic races.

 

[Voadam]

General question that I always think of when we talk about this OGL stuff: Why do people care if the names are OGL? I understand why the writers and publishers care because they actually can potentially use the stuff in their own products. But as a fan why are people concerned? If d20 showed us one thing it was that even when publishers don't have to reinvent the wheel (ie use OGL stuff already out there) it seems to me the reinvent the wheel anyway.

I often use multiple sources for information on monsters I'm using in a game.

For instance, when a module has a green dragon I can go to the MM, the MM3.5, The Draconomicon, The 1e MM, the 2e Monstrous Manual, the 2e Draconomicon, The 2e Council of Wyrms, Basic D&D/Rules Cyclopedia, AEG's Dragons, Mongoose's Book of Dragons, etc. for useful info about green dragons as well as various settings such as dragonlance which might have some neat dragon info I could use.

As a fan if a company uses the stats for a monster from the Creature Collection II, I'd prefer to know they are from there and what they are so I can know to use Creature Collection II as a reference for possible more information on the monster and I can look through other Scarred Lands books for more references to the monster.

Otherwise all you have is the OGC statblock and a list of books in the Section 15 to try to figure out if there is anything outside of this one source on them.

 

[Crothian]

I care because I don't want to make up a new name for something that is essentially the same monster. If I want to use an Ophidian (Yaun-ti like creature from Ari Marmell's bestiary), I want to use the name "Ophidian" to identify it. It's easy, its cool, and its instantly identifiable.

I care, because if I use a name for a creature from some other source in an adventure, said publisher would have the right to sue me if the name is protected. So, it's safer to use monsters whose names are part of the OGC. The publisher declared those names as OGC, so the names are instantly recognizeable.

But this is only if you are publishing it. I was asking why people not publishing care about the OGL.

 

[Nellisir]

But this is only if you are publishing it. I was asking why people not publishing care about the OGL.

Well, many people think they don't, or shouldn't. Personally, I think the more people that know about the OGL, the better OGC will get. Monsters with no names and a large amount of reuseable material will get more use than a monster with no name and no flavor text.

Does that matter to players? I dunno. It matters to me.

 

[RavinRay]

I'm with Bacris and Sir Elton on making the gem dragons OGC… but they first have to be fully compliant with the rules for 3.5 psionics in the Expanded Psionics Handbook and psionics SRD. I and some others have been agitating for the latter on WotC's boards. In my sig you'll see my project to do just that; and I'm seriously thinking of submitting an article proposal for 3.5 psionic gem dragons to the on-line Dragon WotC will publish.

 

[blargney the second]

It'd be really cool to see the SRD get some lovin'. So far I own at least one copy of every book that's in there except Deities & Demigods and the Epic book. The SRD acts as massively expanded product value.