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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaffis" data-source="post: 4312954" data-attributes="member: 10305">And such a setting, in Wizards' eyes, dilutes the D&D brand because it is no longer representative of what they are pushing as "Dungeons and Dragons."D&D has room for different campaign settings. Faerun, Eberron (though I imagine 4e Eberron will take a step back towards the mainstream in many mechanical ways), Planescape -- they're all D&D, in that they are different expressions of the same iconic classes and magical fantasy sword & sorcery settings.Such drastic alterations of the available classes, to the point of even removing entire power sources and changing the functionality of others, has stopped being Dungeons and Dragons in Wizards' eyes, and, as such, they don't want you slapping their logo on it.The fansite license might be less restrictive, and allow you to post your campaign setting on a website (vs. publishing it in a one-time download format such as, say, a .pdf) as a collection of home-brew setting and house rules that *refer* to D&D (but aren't referred to *as* D&D) core rulebooks. Also, some legal insight (and/or precedent) might map out an un-logo'd product that doesn't claim to be D&D but refers the reader to core rulebooks as okay, too, but I expect this scenario to be much less hazy in the fansite language.</blockquote>