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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7185972" data-attributes="member: 37579">IIRC game rules are not protected by copyright. However, the text of the rules is. In that, you can't reproduce them word-for-word. You have to rewrite and rephrase the rules. (Which is WHY the OGL exists in the first place. You can't copyright mechanics, so you could always make compatible products, but the OGL allows you to copy swaths of text without worrying about plagiarism.)Rewriting is harder than it sounds, as the language is pretty simple and designed to be clear: rephrasing things can make things less clear or have unintended rule effects. It's probably just easier to make your own intellect devourer (or yeti) statblocks, taking inspiration from earlier sources and redesigning. Really, even if you do copy the text verbatim, WotC is unlikely to go after you. But it's not very creative. The point of the SRD and OGL is to encourage creativity in the community, so while it's not going against the letter of the OGL, it is going against the spirit.</blockquote>