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<blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 714438" data-attributes="member: 172">Source?At any rate, this may not be as consoling as you think. I hear from Jason on <a href="http://www.realmsofevil.net" target="_blank">www.realmsofevil.net</a> that the paradigm Slaadi book cannot be done as written, as the WotC will not allow them to make their chaotic creatures frog-like or live in limbo. Which, when you look at it that way, makes these types of books seem like the particular target of this change. After all, with the exception of some material drawn from common myths and/or which you can make reasonable conclusions from out of the text, how satisfying would books on creatures be if they obviously aren't speaking of the familiar versions?I'm not exactly seeing the point of stamping out these sorts of books. One of the expressed purposes to the d20 STL was to allow other publishers to publish things supporting the sale of WotC core books with small print runs that WotC was too big to be bothered with. We won't ever see a book like the Illithiad again from WotC, and if the lack of these creatures is a permanent state of affairs, then we won't see it from third party publishers either.At any rate, even if these sorts of book are too threatening too WotC's IP, yanking the whole creatures from the SRD seems like tossing the baby with the bathwater. It's not just the people who step on IP toes that are affected. It's also anyone who wants to just throw a mind flayer in a d20 adventure. Is the mind flayer NPC in Beyond All Reason a threat to WotC IP, for example?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psion, post: 714438, member: 172"] Source? At any rate, this may not be as consoling as you think. I hear from Jason on [url]www.realmsofevil.net[/url] that the paradigm Slaadi book cannot be done as written, as the WotC will not allow them to make their chaotic creatures frog-like or live in limbo. Which, when you look at it that way, makes these types of books seem like the particular target of this change. After all, with the exception of some material drawn from common myths and/or which you can make reasonable conclusions from out of the text, how satisfying would books on creatures be if they obviously aren't speaking of the familiar versions? I'm not exactly seeing the point of stamping out these sorts of books. One of the expressed purposes to the d20 STL was to allow other publishers to publish things [i]supporting the sale of WotC core books[/i] with small print runs that WotC was too big to be bothered with. We won't ever see a book like the Illithiad again from WotC, and if the lack of these creatures is a permanent state of affairs, then we won't see it from third party publishers either. At any rate, even if these sorts of book are too threatening too WotC's IP, yanking the whole creatures from the SRD seems like tossing the baby with the bathwater. It's not just the people who step on IP toes that are affected. It's also anyone who wants to just throw a mind flayer in a d20 adventure. Is the mind flayer NPC in [i]Beyond All Reason[/i] a threat to WotC IP, for example? [/QUOTE]

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