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<blockquote data-quote="philg860" data-source="post: 9295889" data-attributes="member: 6761744">With the recent decision by Hasbro to realease the 5e content SRD to Creative Commons (CC) I was wondering if you can use things like monster names, specifically, in a publihsed retro-clone RPG with 3.5 SRD rules set? My basic understanding is this, correct me if I am wrong but please explain it, that you can literally publish the whole SRD content. Break it down into a players guide, monster manual, and a rules book. Can add to it homebrew stuff and publish and sell it. As long as your avoiding the no no's of IP listed in the OGL which then refers to the SRD and of course put a whole page of legal blurb.Now that they released the 5e SRD to CC the CC license allows for full use AND derivitive works on anything they have in CC which is the whole of the 5e SRD. Which would seem to say you could use a 5e class or monster name thats in the 5e SRD and put it in the mix of monsters in a 3.5 retro clone.The 3.5 monster list that can be used is missing some rather major ones that are in the 5e SRD list. I know its not likely a lawyer is here to respond so I get that. Just want some input as to what I may be misreading if in fact its a misread. There are tons of articles and blogs on this but not many after the release of it all to CC for 5e. Thanks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="philg860, post: 9295889, member: 6761744"] With the recent decision by Hasbro to realease the 5e content SRD to Creative Commons (CC) I was wondering if you can use things like monster names, specifically, in a publihsed retro-clone RPG with 3.5 SRD rules set? My basic understanding is this, correct me if I am wrong but please explain it, that you can literally publish the whole SRD content. Break it down into a players guide, monster manual, and a rules book. Can add to it homebrew stuff and publish and sell it. As long as your avoiding the no no's of IP listed in the OGL which then refers to the SRD and of course put a whole page of legal blurb. Now that they released the 5e SRD to CC the CC license allows for full use AND derivitive works on anything they have in CC which is the whole of the 5e SRD. Which would seem to say you could use a 5e class or monster name thats in the 5e SRD and put it in the mix of monsters in a 3.5 retro clone. The 3.5 monster list that can be used is missing some rather major ones that are in the 5e SRD list. I know its not likely a lawyer is here to respond so I get that. Just want some input as to what I may be misreading if in fact its a misread. There are tons of articles and blogs on this but not many after the release of it all to CC for 5e. Thanks. [/QUOTE]

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