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<blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 8833935" data-attributes="member: 10531"><p>Well, the choices of monsters was pretty historically contingent. Basically, the criteria for those was:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Is the monster in the 3rd edition <em>Monster Manual</em>?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Does Ryan Dancey/WotC in 2000-2001 think the monster has any economic value in non-game contexts, like on T-shirts or the like?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Is Ryan Dancey/WotC in 2000-2001 under the impression that the monster originated with a TSR publication?</li> </ol><p>If the answer to <em>all three</em> was yes, then it was kept out of the officially-released 3rd edition SRD, which otherwise had the rest of the 3rd edition <em>Monster Manual</em>. And if the monster was kept out of the officially-released 3rd edition SRD, it then got named as Product Identity in the "Legal.rtf" file included with the 3.5 revised SRD. (The original SRD legal file does <em>not</em> have a PI declaration in it, and I can't find any other in my checking with the Wayback Machine on either the Open Gaming Foundation or Wizards of the Coast sites.)</p><p></p><p>The PI declaration on monsters, as best I can tell, was to clean up the fact that early SRD drafts released and used by third parties under the wild and woolly "gentleman's agreement" terms before the OGL and SRD were finalized in fact included those not-offically-released monsters, and so there was published 3PP material out there that included those monsters in what those products declared was Open Game Content. Thus the PI declarations were putting people on notice that WotC never officially released them as OGC and did not want those monsters used by third parties.</p><p></p><p>[Now, why the 3.5 "Legal.rtf" file PI declaration explicitly included the Lady of Pain while apparently leaving every other character handled as "character names (including those used in the names of spells or items)"? I have no idea. But they seemed to be really interested in locking down Planescape material, didn't they?]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="see, post: 8833935, member: 10531"] Well, the choices of monsters was pretty historically contingent. Basically, the criteria for those was: [LIST=1] [*]Is the monster in the 3rd edition [I]Monster Manual[/I]? [*]Does Ryan Dancey/WotC in 2000-2001 think the monster has any economic value in non-game contexts, like on T-shirts or the like? [*]Is Ryan Dancey/WotC in 2000-2001 under the impression that the monster originated with a TSR publication? [/LIST] If the answer to [I]all three[/I] was yes, then it was kept out of the officially-released 3rd edition SRD, which otherwise had the rest of the 3rd edition [I]Monster Manual[/I]. And if the monster was kept out of the officially-released 3rd edition SRD, it then got named as Product Identity in the "Legal.rtf" file included with the 3.5 revised SRD. (The original SRD legal file does [I]not[/I] have a PI declaration in it, and I can't find any other in my checking with the Wayback Machine on either the Open Gaming Foundation or Wizards of the Coast sites.) The PI declaration on monsters, as best I can tell, was to clean up the fact that early SRD drafts released and used by third parties under the wild and woolly "gentleman's agreement" terms before the OGL and SRD were finalized in fact included those not-offically-released monsters, and so there was published 3PP material out there that included those monsters in what those products declared was Open Game Content. Thus the PI declarations were putting people on notice that WotC never officially released them as OGC and did not want those monsters used by third parties. [Now, why the 3.5 "Legal.rtf" file PI declaration explicitly included the Lady of Pain while apparently leaving every other character handled as "character names (including those used in the names of spells or items)"? I have no idea. But they seemed to be really interested in locking down Planescape material, didn't they?] [/QUOTE]
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