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<blockquote data-quote="Kafen" data-source="post: 4981357" data-attributes="member: 11273"><p>The other day, I almost stepped on a jelly fish while on the beach. Odd, it is the wrong time of year for them here. </p><p></p><p><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>I think of the ochre jelly in the older games. Then, I remind people of the Green Slime - the 1968 movie version. How about the vintage 1958 Blob movie?</p><p></p><p>Anywho, the point is that my local newspaper ran an ad for a showing of the Blob at a classic movie night for a local cinema. The advertising words were vintage cheesey, but... "the Blob oozes it's way through the helpless" ...was part of the advertising. If you actually do a Google search "the blob oozes", you will find common usage of the term to describe a monster that predates the OGL. As a sci-fi buff, I assure you that my ooze creatures also predate the arch-types you see in the OGL. So, the OGL can effectively claim a monster type for itself within the system, but the OGL can not claim any sort of actual ownership to the term in my opinion. The usage of the term ooze is part of American pop culture....and, pending your views on vintage horror films, a gift to the world.</p><p></p><p>Sooo, I would risk using ooze myself. Mind you, the creature type would not be anything like the OGL SRD version. It would be closer to something from GURPS in my world's custom monster catalog.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kafen, post: 4981357, member: 11273"] The other day, I almost stepped on a jelly fish while on the beach. Odd, it is the wrong time of year for them here. :) I think of the ochre jelly in the older games. Then, I remind people of the Green Slime - the 1968 movie version. How about the vintage 1958 Blob movie? Anywho, the point is that my local newspaper ran an ad for a showing of the Blob at a classic movie night for a local cinema. The advertising words were vintage cheesey, but... "the Blob oozes it's way through the helpless" ...was part of the advertising. If you actually do a Google search "the blob oozes", you will find common usage of the term to describe a monster that predates the OGL. As a sci-fi buff, I assure you that my ooze creatures also predate the arch-types you see in the OGL. So, the OGL can effectively claim a monster type for itself within the system, but the OGL can not claim any sort of actual ownership to the term in my opinion. The usage of the term ooze is part of American pop culture....and, pending your views on vintage horror films, a gift to the world. Sooo, I would risk using ooze myself. Mind you, the creature type would not be anything like the OGL SRD version. It would be closer to something from GURPS in my world's custom monster catalog. [/QUOTE]
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