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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8925044" data-attributes="member: 58172">Yes.The general idea is, Pathfinder 2 designers made a point to write the game from scratch. Generally, there is no copy-paste from 3.5 SRD, and this helps for copyrighting Pathfinder 2. In the D&amp;D 3.5 SRD, both the rules system itself and the public domain folkbelief themes are uncopyrightable. So simply avoiding copy-paste usually is enough to keep Pathfinder 2 independent.That said, there are specific examples (such as the ones you mention), where specific phrasing permeates into the Pathfinder rules. But even these are debatable. For example, &quot;Chill Touch&quot;, a touch that causes icy damage? That doesnt seem especially copyrightable. But maybe? But in the sense of a ghostly &quot;chill&quot; causing damage? Still probably not? But in any case, the debatable stuff probably does well to change the wording to avoid issues.Paizo (such as Erik Mona) has said, they can de-OGL-ify the P2 RD. But to do it properly, would take alot of work, and they would rather not at this time. But if forced to because of Hasbro-WotC bad faith, they will.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8925044, member: 58172"] Yes. The general idea is, Pathfinder 2 designers made a point to write the game from scratch. Generally, there is no copy-paste from 3.5 SRD, and this helps for copyrighting Pathfinder 2. In the D&D 3.5 SRD, both the rules system itself and the public domain folkbelief themes are uncopyrightable. So simply avoiding copy-paste usually is enough to keep Pathfinder 2 independent. That said, there are specific examples (such as the ones you mention), where specific phrasing permeates into the Pathfinder rules. But even these are debatable. For example, "[I]Chill Touch[/I]", a touch that causes icy damage? That doesnt seem especially copyrightable. But maybe? But in the sense of a ghostly "chill" causing damage? Still probably not? But in any case, the debatable stuff probably does well to change the wording to avoid issues. Paizo (such as Erik Mona) has said, they can de-OGL-ify the P2 RD. But to do it properly, would take alot of work, and they would rather not at this time. But if forced to because of Hasbro-WotC bad faith, they will. [/QUOTE]

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