Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="sabby" data-source="post: 747617" data-attributes="member: 5522">I'm sure one of you has a quick answer to this.  (I'm also sure that if I would have spent "just a little more time" looking that I could have found an easier answer, but I still haven't found a definitive answer.) Is there anyone who knows for sure what view WotC takes towards "recommending" their products?  I would like to, in a small campaign setting that I want to "half-heartedly" publish, recommend usage of certain books from WotC that will work well with the setting.  I would love to go into more detail, perhaps say, "This feat and this feat are appropriate, but this feat is not."  Keep in mind, I do not want to detail what the feats do.  I just wish to make up a small appendix that says, "These other works from Wizards are good, you should buy them.  These pieces will be useful."I can understand their desire to protect their IP and respect it.  I just hope that there's a bit of leeway when it comes to me recommending the purchase of that material... but I fear that I cannot even allude to the existence of other Wizards products.Also, how careful do I need to be about making feats which are similar to other WotC feats?  If I wanted to present a feat which was "Additional Favored Class" which granted a race another favored class, do I have to be concerned that WotC made a feat which granted an additional favored class but restricted the choice to an arcane casting class?  How about an even grayer shade, where I make a feat which gave +2 to Spot and +2 to Listen, but also granted +2 to Craft (Origami Pterodactyls)... which would otherwise duplicate Alertness, but had another benefit.What I'm most interested in is making up a background book which will let me publish my home campaign.  I don't anticipate selling more than ten copies or so, so it's probably not going to even register on the WotC radar.  I may never even finish the book... But, it's a philosophical question on my part.  "How rigid are the rules which guide me?"</blockquote>

Verification