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<blockquote data-quote="Sphyre" data-source="post: 4523339" data-attributes="member: 55424"><p>I don't understand the question. There's something missing to make that question make sense. It's possible you might have meant one of the following:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What's the consensus on what you <em>think</em> the legality of fan-made 4e character sheets is?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What's the consensus on what you think should be legal regarding fan-made 4e character sheets?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What is the legality of fan-made 4e character sheets?</li> </ul><p></p><p>The legality of it is not an opinion; not something that you can have a consensus on. The law just is, whether or not people have an opinion about it.</p><p></p><p>That being said, you can make 4e compatible character sheets that don't break any copy right or trademark law (Yes, I just said it's legal if you don't break any laws). For specifics you should see a lawyer, but in general you can't include a trademark such as the D&D logo without mentioning who owns that trademark. I am not very versed in copy right law, so I don't know about how much information on feats you can include, but you <em>can</em> make auto-calculating character sheets as copy right laws don't protect the mechanics of a game, just the text of a book.</p><p></p><p>Almost any printable character sheet that contains text only will be legal because it won't have a database of powers, but rather columns that can be filled in and it's titled something called "powers." Simply being compatible with 4e is not illegal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sphyre, post: 4523339, member: 55424"] I don't understand the question. There's something missing to make that question make sense. It's possible you might have meant one of the following: [list][*]What's the consensus on what you [i]think[/i] the legality of fan-made 4e character sheets is? [*]What's the consensus on what you think should be legal regarding fan-made 4e character sheets? [*]What is the legality of fan-made 4e character sheets?[/list] The legality of it is not an opinion; not something that you can have a consensus on. The law just is, whether or not people have an opinion about it. That being said, you can make 4e compatible character sheets that don't break any copy right or trademark law (Yes, I just said it's legal if you don't break any laws). For specifics you should see a lawyer, but in general you can't include a trademark such as the D&D logo without mentioning who owns that trademark. I am not very versed in copy right law, so I don't know about how much information on feats you can include, but you [i]can[/i] make auto-calculating character sheets as copy right laws don't protect the mechanics of a game, just the text of a book. Almost any printable character sheet that contains text only will be legal because it won't have a database of powers, but rather columns that can be filled in and it's titled something called "powers." Simply being compatible with 4e is not illegal. [/QUOTE]
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