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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sigurd" data-source="post: 3619126" data-attributes="member: 19412">I was rooting through the internet and found a reference to a couple of monsters including the Urd. The urd looked reasonable enough. It was admirably converted from MC2 to third ed by Boz and the Creature Catalogue. Its a minor monster that is sort of like a goblin\kobold\critter with wings.I started dreaming of possible uses for the beastie and what to do with stories that might involve ..... then it hit me..The Urd was a reasonable monster but it wasn't so wonderful that an original monster might not function in its place. I could think of a few other similar niche home brew monsters I had seen that would work thematically and plot wise as well... Why was I using someone elses copywrited material when there were perfectly good alternatives that would be free or easier to license?It got me thinking. People are really hip to convert old monsters but the product is not freed into a regular publishing license when finished ie D20, OGL, LGPL, GPLDoc etc.... Has anyone considered that republishing something you yourself will have no control over is sort of a thankless task? That a critter converted is captive to copywrite but a beastie all new is fresh to the world?Any comment?Has anyone had reason to remake a story or work to change elements that were burdened by copywrite?</blockquote>