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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teiran" data-source="post: 4319267" data-attributes="member: 70486">So, here is the current fear sweeping the Paizo boards, and I'm kind of hoping to get some clarification. Say that I print a book under the GSL, folllowing all the rules and guidelines to the letter.  In that book, I create a new base class, the Monk.  The Monk currently doesn't exist in 4th edition.  It's not part of the SRD at the time i print my book, and we're not worried about IP or copywrite here because mine is a whole new creation, it just uses a class common name.  A similair example woudl be making a new monster based on a mythological creature you guys have not yet used.But in two years, when say the Players Handbook 3 come out with a bunch of Ki based classes and the offical Monk base gets printed, what happenes when you guys add the word Monk as a reference to the SRD?Am I now suddenly in violation of the GSL, because my book details a Monk class, even though they are obviously not the same class?  Will I be able to continue printing my book, because I did not redefine the term Monk because mine was printed first?Obviously the two classes won't be the same.  Mine will have powers I made up, a different skill list, and probaly completely different class powers.  But a lot of people have taken a very draconian reading of the GSL and begiun saying that at any time you guys coudl print a monster/race/class, add the name ot the SRD and put somebody who already made up that monster/race/class in violation.What will happen in this situation, where something new is created whole cloth, and then the name gets folded into the SRD later due to Wizards creating a different version?</blockquote>

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