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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 4696533" data-attributes="member: 18182">I sincerely doubt that WotC is "clamping down" on fan publishing at all, although the word "publishing" might be somewhat problematic.  When does something cross the line between fan "publishing" and a professional product?  Quality?  Free or at cost? Number of "fans" involved?Was your article going to simply be about "Lords of Creation"?  Like a review or informational article?  If so, you wouldn't need any sort of permission.Were you planning on providing game information?  Like new monsters, rules, etc?  I've never heard of Lords of Creation, but I doubt it is an open property at all like the last two editions of D&D.  I would guess that it's not so much that WotC has any "problem" with your desire to publish something for the game, but feels that there would need to be a license involved like the OGL or GSL, and it simply isn't worth their time to work it out.  It's much easier to just say, "No."Chances are, if you had a "Lords of Creation" fansite that offered new elements for the game, WotC probably wouldn't have even noticed.  And if it was brought to their attention, they probably wouldn't have bothered to do anything about it (although, they of course could and might).  But since you asked, the easiest answer for them was simply, "No, you can't do that."Hopefully, once WotC finally posts their fansite policy it will cover fansites of games they own the rights to but no longer actively publish.</blockquote>

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