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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1276578" data-attributes="member: 813">Technically, they aren't. But they also aren't OGC. They are just copyrighted expression.To be Product Identity, there would have to be a Forgotten Realms book with a copy of the OGL in it. The names would have to be found in the OGC portion of the book and the book would have to explicitly state that they are PI. None of this has ever come close to occuring.One of the flaws with the OGL is that technically it applies to the entire work in which it is printed. That makes things like magazines and anthologies hard to work with under the OGL.The real problem you have with using those names is that by definition a work containing those names, referring to those deities with the characteristics found in WotC material, is that your material is automatically considered derived from the WotC material. By law, WotC has to give you permission to distribute a work derivative of their material. They aren't going to do that. This has nothing to do with the OGL.</blockquote>