Meta:Deep crow

Licensed content

Paizo licensed the use of the deep crow from the webcomic Penny Arcade. This limited license did not include publishing the creature as open game content, and as such it does not appear in canon works outside of the Second Darkness Pathfinder Adventure Path.¹²

References

↑ "A few monsters won't be reprinted in a Bestiary because we don't have the copyright permission to do that—these monsters aren't open content either (such as the deep crow, the coeurl, and the gnoph-keh)." James Jacobs. (January 5, 2012). Comment on >>Ask *James Jacobs* ALL your Questions Here!<<, Paizo messageboards.
↑ "We wanted to honor the creator of the creature and present it in it's original format and respect the creator by securing permission to use it in an RPG rather than just change a few things and pass it off as our own or not change anything at all and just use it without permission. In the discussion with the rights-holder, they gave us a one-time license to use the creature once, and that meant it got specifically excluded from the OGL, and we wanted to respect their decision and never used it in our adventures. We did this a few other times too, such as with the Deep Crow." James Jacobs. (February 21, 2020). Comment on >>Ask *James Jacobs* ALL your Questions Here!<<, Paizo messageboards.

[1] "A few monsters won't be reprinted in a Bestiary because we don't have the copyright permission to do that—these monsters aren't open content either (such as the deep crow, the coeurl, and the gnoph-keh)." James Jacobs. (January 5, 2012). Comment on >>Ask *James Jacobs* ALL your Questions Here!<<, Paizo messageboards.

[2] "We wanted to honor the creator of the creature and present it in it's original format and respect the creator by securing permission to use it in an RPG rather than just change a few things and pass it off as our own or not change anything at all and just use it without permission. In the discussion with the rights-holder, they gave us a one-time license to use the creature once, and that meant it got specifically excluded from the OGL, and we wanted to respect their decision and never used it in our adventures. We did this a few other times too, such as with the Deep Crow." James Jacobs. (February 21, 2020). Comment on >>Ask *James Jacobs* ALL your Questions Here!<<, Paizo messageboards.

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