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Oh man, haha, I actually thought to myself "I wonder if Richards is still around." Glad to know you still are! Ahhh, you're the first person to pop in, and I have this mess spread across multiple sites. It's weird how I need feedback to breathe in a writing environment. Most of the writing...

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It's not about being told what I want to hear, it's about wanting reliable information. If you're telling me something I consider unreliable and when asked for a source respond "hey, you don't want our help, hit the bricks. You can find this info as easily as we can," I can't use that. Also, I...

Hey, for all I know Umbran is just someone who made all that up because he enjoys being contrary.

Can you maybe cite a source or two on this?

That's not the plot, though, that's the... I dunno what the term is for that, but plot isn't just a vague blurb sentence. A plot is the ordered collection of events relevant to a story, and that's what I'm pretty sure you can't duplicate with just name and dialogue changes.

These are the same people who will tell you that "there are only two types of people in the world." They oversimplify and they must be stopped. Yeah, but you can't write (fill in plot of Star Wars here, change the names and dialogue) and expect to skate. I'm no legal guy but I'll betcha that...

IIIIII'm pretty sure taking the plot of a story and putting it out with only names changed is still actionable.

And THEN, on the other hand, I have that people are liking my writing and I'm putting together a volume of short stories because why not. Having five novels' worth of material in the can, ready to go but for some intense Find & Replace action, is a tempting prospect and a quick way to fattening...

That was what I was looking at initially, but if I'm now going through and performing a find / replace for everything referencing Greyhawk, pantheons, specific spells, modules, etc... I might as well just give up now, as I'm pretty sure this is going to be prohibitively time-consuming. Then...

Unscrupulous sorts forcing people / companies into pre-emptive defensive positions ruin everything for everyone.

Yeah, the human quality of hope in the face of implausible success is a terrible thing. You raise a fine point. Gonna go look over their submission guidelines. Thanks mister.

Anyone else? Anything? I mean, we know there's some small wiggle room on words and names, otherwise D&D wouldn't exist at all, because, y'know... Tolkien.

I was hoping (and kinda still am) that there's some sort of loophole, like parody law is for other things, or that Wizards tends to give a pass to people publishing stories using established terms. I really hope I don't have to find / replace tons of copyrighted terms. ...Because I don't think I...

We're definitely talking about using specific names and places, and text of copyrighted material.