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The vast majority of this book uses material ripped right from "Lost Prehistorica", a 3e book by Dark Quest games (which you can still purchase on DTRPG no less! I highly recommend it, if only for the content and not the rules).
Except that material was handled better... and was written by people who are decidely NOT the authors of this book.
So, y'know... theft is fine.
Enjoy "Ismael Alvarez"s work. I'm sure you can find it in chunks, spread out across several books published years earlier, by better writers.
Update : The publisher has stated that they did indeed use portions of Lost Prehistorica, in a way they claim is in line with the license. I believe, in the spirit of maintaining the integrity of our collective role-playing community, that the publisher might want to look more deeply into how the OGL and "Fair Use" (as they put it in their own credits for their book) works, since plagiarizing sections of text claimed by someone else as original work and then converting the statblock itself into 5th edition rules does not equate a "transformative" work. I'm sure this is just an oversight on their part, and they will see fit to eventually credit the original authors in this and other publications as a show of good faith towards other content creators. Especially since the credits for Savage Lands state that anything not considered OGL in that book is their own Product Identity. I look forward to seeing fewer oversights like this one, in the future.
*Update #2 : Apparently, I stand corrected, as Fat Goblin Games has clarified that the entire book "Lost Prehistorica", that is still available for sale here on DTRPG and written by other authors under a different company, is Open Game Content. I'm relieved to hear that those authors haven't had their work "stolen" without credit, but rather simply "appropriated legally" without credit. Thank goodness we can all rest easy now, knowing how Fat Goblin Games feels about any moral or ethical treatment towards other content creators. After all, its not wrong to exploit and monetize the works of others without any reference to them, so long as it isn't technically illegal. Enjoy the book, so FGG can enjoy your money. And after you've enjoyed this book, which again - DOES contain original work - be sure to thank the authors of whatever other* books you find that same material in, since they were such good sports and took one for the team by losing out on that sale for their own hard work. I was wrong. Nothing to see here, just business as usual. So glad we got that cleared up. And to Steven Cook, David Woodrum, Michael Hammes, Neal Levin and everyone else who put so much effort into a 109 page book back in 2004... on behalf of the purchasers of Savage Lands, 'written' by Ismael Alvares and Rick Hershey, thank you for your unwitting contribution to this book. They quite literally couldn't have done it without you. Respect.
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