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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 2376605" data-attributes="member: 10913">The conflict I see is essentially this text in the bottom of the edit page:WotC's policy doesn't relinqish their copyright over their work, nor gives anyone else copyrights. If you copy something from a WotC book, you're doing it without having the copyright and hence in violation of the WikiCity license. If you're copying something from an OGL source you again don't have a copyright (you would if you published under the OGL, but you can't publish under both the OGL and the GFDL).If you don't COPY anything but just use the same format, feat names, and so on then you MAY not be in violation of COPYright at all and so can use the GFDL. I'm not sure if that's true, though, it smells to me like derivative work. But I am not a lawyer.I personally think the best way to do it is to use a site that doesn't follow the GFDL or any other license; to basically ignore all laws/licenses and just publish the site under WotC's fan-site policy. (Ignoring also the fact that you're publishing other company's stuff.) By using the GFDL you are making claims you can't back up (you don't own the copyright), and allowing others to do stuff you have no right to allow (anyone can take the stuff and publish/edit it under the GFDL).That said, if WikiCities or WotC and so on don't make a fuss over it, then I probably shouldn't either.</blockquote>