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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Talaysen" data-source="post: 276255" data-attributes="member: 340">There are, as I recall, certain laws and regulations protecting derivative, noncommercial fan work of this nature; and even where such protections are questionable at best, few companies, to my knowledge, go out of their way to quash fans. I don't think Disney is one of them. (There are limits, obviously, but there are a large number of Gargoyles sites out there containing a vast amount of material, including not only fan work but also screenshots and sounds from the show. If Disney was going to act, I'm sure they would have done so by now - and actually, they've started encouraging the fans, lately, to the point of providing door prizes for Gathering 2002, the recent Gargoyles convention.) If memory serves, there are already fan projects defining such settings as Middle Earth, etc. in terms of the d20 system.Now, I'm not sure we can legally do this as an "official" d20 manuscript, complete with OGL and such - I'll have to look into that - but again, fan works have a fair amount of leeway. As long as we don't go around exploiting other folks' work too badly, I doubt anyone will mind. Heck, we'll probably reference certain applicable D&D/d20 books specifically (without actually reprinting the material in question, of course), and I doubt that any publisher would object to the free advertising.</blockquote>