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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 707088" data-attributes="member: 1328">I was wondering about Yuan-ti and Mindflayer since the critters were absent from the d20 Modern SRD.Still think it's a poor idea to entirely remove the creatures from the SRD. With things like Slayer's Guide to Yuan-ti floating around, they should have knew they were going to make several long-announced products cancelled or illicit.Also, I don't remember having seen many pictures that seemed in my eyes to be copy of WotC-owned art. Except the Sohei chick of OA appearing in Monte Cook's Book of Hallowed Might (in the spell section, casting a spell creating a messenger bird). Otherwise, I guess that if beholders look like big ball with eyestalks, mindflayers look like squid-headed men, and yuan-tis being like the snake-folk in E. Rice Burrough's Pellucidar, it's only logical. Maybe WotC wanted third-party publishers to illustrate them as a floating CD, a can of coke with 4 pipes, and Earthworm Jim respectively, but that would have kinda ruined the purpose of having D&D-compatible d20 products, and gamers would have shun them. Wizards don't care, of course, but why the hell bothering to make an OGL license in these conditions ?Rangers being two-weapon wielding wilderness genociders is ALSO something quite exclusive to D&D. As IP of wizards, they should be removed from WotC (they could not, however, remove the slot-system of magic, since it's well established they copied it on what Vance imagined in his Dying Earth books).That said, I remember having fought Gazers (floating starfish-like eyeball with 5 tentacles and magical powers) in Ultima Underworld 2, and having morphed into Opsis (floating eyeball with two tentacles and magic powers) in ShadowCaster. D&D may have invented the Beholder*, but everyone and their neighbours have been making floating eyeballs with tentacles and eyestalks.* I'm not sure of that, by the way, their shape is quite typical of 50's pulp stories.I guess Creature Collection Revised won't have the blurb saying that beholders are creatures of Mesos, though...By the way, just checked the PsiSRD Prestige Class: they are those from Bruce Cordell's redo of them on montecook.com. (LOL at the "Pyrokenticist", by the way.) The SRD should thus include in its Section 15 this, then: Malhavoc Press is a trademark owned by Monte James Cook. “If Thoughts Could Kill” Copyright 2001 Bruce R. Cordell. ; shouldn't it ? It's the Section 15 of those free PDF...</blockquote>

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