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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 3292779" data-attributes="member: 20239">No, but it is WotC Product Identity.  If you are making use of the info in the SRD you are going to be bound by the clause in the OGL that prevents you from using Product Identity without permission.  You wouldn't be within the limits set by the OGL.  However, you do have the ability to ask permission of WotC to reference their Product Identity.  The whole purpose of the OGL is to help drive sales of WotC products, so if you really wanted to include a Swashbuckler NPC in your OGL product, the best thing to do would probably be to just ask WotC directly if you could include basic stat-block information and then direct the consumer to the appropriate WotC book for reference.  I'm sure (if they gave permission) you'd have to include some language about the info being "used by permission" but it seems to me that the PI clause wasn't necessarily included in the OGL to absolutely prevent anyone else from using WotC PI, but to give WotC some control over how and where that information gets used.  Otherwise the OGL doesn't fulfill its purpose of driving WotC booksales as efficiently as it could.The WotC Licensing Department is the place to contact to ask permission to use PI.</blockquote>