that is a fair point... when I joined D&D I made every dragon I made a character (with goals, fears, and such) and the only player that ever played D&D before thought it amazing... but I JUST thought that normal... then again I have different 2e experience then most it seemsWell they differently had more personality because they were actually given personalities!
Know better than what? Showing their design work to others?
"Tasselhoff's Pouches of Everything" is published by the Dragonlance Nexus, which is the official fan community for the Dragonlance setting. They have a special license with WotC. The book, and their other products, are not illegal nor are using stolen art. They are revising the book, both the content and the art, for a release on the DM's Guild.
Really? Just because you offer something for free, doesn't make it legal or illegal. Whether you charge or not, you can't use art and trade dress without a license. People do it all the time, and WotC doesn't put forth the energy to hunt them all down, but . . . doesn't make it legal or right.
Pretty sure that's artistic license, and not intentional design choices.
How many people are you allowed to show your work to before it suddenly becomes illegal?
Showing your work is fine, but IP and trade dress are someone else's work. That is where you get in trouble. However, in this instance, it seems I may have been wrong as apparently they had a license from WotC.
I am pretty sure it was intentional. I remember reading about it (maybe in the art of dragonlance) back in the day. All the artist (with the exception Easley IMO) adhered to it for the dragonlance products and only the dragonlance products. Look at the blue dragon from Keith below and compare it to the blue head from Takhisis by Caldwell I posted previously. Same design (pair of horns, pair of fangs, no nose horn, & strange belly scales), which is different from the MM.
Than to steal others work (art, IP, trade dress).
That is showing someone else's work, not your own. Now, it appears I could be wrong as @Dire Bare claims they have a license to do this. I will go back an edit my first post on this subject.
