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<blockquote data-quote="Metalmaster" data-source="post: 5782427" data-attributes="member: 87714"><p>When I saw a falling star 3 nights ago I wished that Wizards of the Coast finally released some troubled creatures from their copyright chains.</p><p> </p><p>Really, put Zorbo, Metalmaster, Julajimus, Deepspawn, Gravorg, Morkoth and all those other long-not-used-and-probably-never-used-again-creatures on the list of copyright-free creatures... </p><p>Why would you give away Destrachan, Remorhaz, Bulette and even Rust Monsters and keep hold of creatures you never ever use again anyway.</p><p> </p><p>All creatures that never are used again or only rarely should end up on a list so other companies and projects can use them freely and work magic with them, i'm talking about Pathfinder, Tome of Horror and other such similiar projects here... give them the possibility to use these creatures as keeping them copyrighted forever is a shame for some creatures.</p><p> </p><p>I understand you copyright Mind Flayer, Carrion Crawler and Displacer Beast, but why copyright Zorbo and Metalmaster which are not seen since 2nd edition...?</p><p> </p><p>Or if you don't let loose of the copyright then use them in your own products instead of 10.000 kinds of drakes, goblins and elementals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>this is to Wizards (if they ever read this) not to other forummembers of course, i'm a huge monster fan that happens to collect monster-books and I think these monsters deserve to make it into future products, that only takes place when they are released from their copyright... D&D made some very awesome monsters during 2nd and 3rd edition, but they didn't use them in the 4th edition and probably never will if I see the latest monster-additions which are only drakes and new elementals... so release them into the world like you did with the 3.5 monster manual creatures, only keeping the extremly D&D-classics and new 4th and 5th generation monsters copyrighted. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Metalmaster, post: 5782427, member: 87714"] When I saw a falling star 3 nights ago I wished that Wizards of the Coast finally released some troubled creatures from their copyright chains. Really, put Zorbo, Metalmaster, Julajimus, Deepspawn, Gravorg, Morkoth and all those other long-not-used-and-probably-never-used-again-creatures on the list of copyright-free creatures... Why would you give away Destrachan, Remorhaz, Bulette and even Rust Monsters and keep hold of creatures you never ever use again anyway. All creatures that never are used again or only rarely should end up on a list so other companies and projects can use them freely and work magic with them, i'm talking about Pathfinder, Tome of Horror and other such similiar projects here... give them the possibility to use these creatures as keeping them copyrighted forever is a shame for some creatures. I understand you copyright Mind Flayer, Carrion Crawler and Displacer Beast, but why copyright Zorbo and Metalmaster which are not seen since 2nd edition...? Or if you don't let loose of the copyright then use them in your own products instead of 10.000 kinds of drakes, goblins and elementals. this is to Wizards (if they ever read this) not to other forummembers of course, i'm a huge monster fan that happens to collect monster-books and I think these monsters deserve to make it into future products, that only takes place when they are released from their copyright... D&D made some very awesome monsters during 2nd and 3rd edition, but they didn't use them in the 4th edition and probably never will if I see the latest monster-additions which are only drakes and new elementals... so release them into the world like you did with the 3.5 monster manual creatures, only keeping the extremly D&D-classics and new 4th and 5th generation monsters copyrighted. :D [/QUOTE]
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