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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8905664" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>The SRD has rules in it. Some of those rules embody vague worldbuilding concepts, but I would argue that few of them rise to the point where you could have copyright on them – mostly some of the monsters that aren't drawn from mythology, like xorns. The SRD also generally doesn't provide physical descriptions of these monsters. The xorn, for example, have one bite and three claw attacks, is described with height and weight, and their All-round vision ability mentions "symmetrically placed eyes". But the SRD doesn't say they're vaguely conical beings with three symmetrically placed arms and three symmetrically placed legs, with a mouth at the top and that they're made of rock. That part is from the Monster Manual, and not open content.</p><p></p><p>And more importantly, the SRD doesn't have any actual characters or concrete worldbuilding (basically anything with names). It's all rules and vague concepts. So basically, anything a major entertainment corporation like Disney could get out of the SRD, they could probably build themselves, and likely better.</p><p></p><p>In the early 00s, Wizards were a lot more supportive of open gaming than they are now. They basically gave Necromancer Games a license to publish a whole bunch of monsters from older editions they didn't have any plans on making their own versions of. And since then, Necromancer and their successor Frog God have made versions of this for later editions.</p><p></p><p>Well, those xorns are pretty hawt.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8905664, member: 907"] The SRD has rules in it. Some of those rules embody vague worldbuilding concepts, but I would argue that few of them rise to the point where you could have copyright on them – mostly some of the monsters that aren't drawn from mythology, like xorns. The SRD also generally doesn't provide physical descriptions of these monsters. The xorn, for example, have one bite and three claw attacks, is described with height and weight, and their All-round vision ability mentions "symmetrically placed eyes". But the SRD doesn't say they're vaguely conical beings with three symmetrically placed arms and three symmetrically placed legs, with a mouth at the top and that they're made of rock. That part is from the Monster Manual, and not open content. And more importantly, the SRD doesn't have any actual characters or concrete worldbuilding (basically anything with names). It's all rules and vague concepts. So basically, anything a major entertainment corporation like Disney could get out of the SRD, they could probably build themselves, and likely better. In the early 00s, Wizards were a lot more supportive of open gaming than they are now. They basically gave Necromancer Games a license to publish a whole bunch of monsters from older editions they didn't have any plans on making their own versions of. And since then, Necromancer and their successor Frog God have made versions of this for later editions. Well, those xorns are pretty hawt. [/QUOTE]
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