Gemstone dragons in Golarion?

[Selk]

One of my players is considering Draconic Heritage as a feat, and she has her eyes on the Amethyst variety. Personally I think it's a bit too...pretty pretty princess, but if there are gemstone dragons in Golarion I suppose it's not a huge sacrifice to make as a DM.

Are there?

[mevers]

If you want them to be there are.

Officially? I would think probably not as they aren't open content (I think), so Paizo can't use them. But don't let that stop you. There's plenty of room in Golarion for whatever you want.

[James Jacobs]

We haven't decided if there are or aren't gemstone dragons yet. If there are, they'd have to be different than the ones from the Monster Manual II since those aren't open content.

[Joey Virtue]

Is the only Monster Manual that is open content the 1st one?

[Lilith]

Joey Virtue wrote:

Is the only Monster Manual that is open content the 1st one?

For the most part, but there are certain exclusions in the SRD (notably illithid, yuan-ti, and displacer beasts).

[Mark Gedak 27]

Joey Virtue wrote:

Is the only Monster Manual that is open content the 1st one?

None of the material in the Monster Manual is open game content. The monsters that are open game content that also appear in the Monster Manual are located in the Monsters system reference document on WoTC's site or a dozen other online.

Very few of WoTC book have any open game content in them.

Exceptions are:
Monster Manual II has two: Razor Boar (p.220) and Scorpionfolk (p.221)

Unearthed Arcana has a bunch of open game content if you read the declaration carefully.

Weapons Locker (d20 Modern) also has a good chunk of open game content as well (though its more restricted).

Otherwise WOTC open game content is found in the system reference documents.

[Matthew Morris]

MM II's OGL critters come from the Creature Collection, actually. They aren't Wizard's open content.

I think it's an evolution in policy we saw.

First stage, OGL, goodies for everyone!

Second stage, We'll show off other people's good OGL stuff (MM II, Unearthed Arcana)

Third Stage, Wow, we'd better stop doing that.

4th stage (St4ge?) Ok, pulling all these license home so we can do it all ourselves. and stop pointing out all the other cool stuff others have made.

[Joey Virtue]

Matthew Morris wrote:

MM II's OGL critters come from the Creature Collection, actually. They aren't Wizard's open content.

I think it's an evolution in policy we saw.

First stage, OGL, goodies for everyone!

Second stage, We'll show off other people's good OGL stuff (MM II, Unearthed Arcana)

Third Stage, Wow, we'd better stop doing that.

4th stage (St4ge?) Ok, pulling all these license home so we can do it all ourselves. and stop pointing out all the other cool stuff others have made.

This is why i really dont know how good the 4.0 OGL will be and i think Paizo should stick with 3.5/3.75