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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hardvice" data-source="post: 6421825" data-attributes="member: 6777838">WOTC was pretty clear that they weren't going to license anything until after the DMG was released, at the earliest, on the theory that they didn't want people releasing licensed content for a game that's only half finished.  (I suppose one could point out that that's essentially what's happened with HotDQ and RoT, funnily enough).  So I'm guessing anyone using Basic content is just playing the odds that WOTC won't go after them for it. And in the case of most character creation apps, they might be right. Unlike spell cards, which don't exist at all without licensed content, a character sheet app can pull out the basic data and still have a functioning product, albeit a fairly user-unfriendly one.  And since the Basic rules are available as a PDF, the end user would just end up cut-and-pasting the content back in anyway (and be well within the "personal use" granted to them in doing so).My guess then is that WOTC probably doesn't see much value (yet, without a competing product) in going after character sheet apps with content from the Basic rules, but probably does see digital spell cards as directly competing products for Galeforce 9's licensed spellbook cards.I wouldn't be surprised at all to see that, once WOTC does end up releasing licensing terms to the general public, the Basic rules end up being free to use in non-commercial works. But that's certainly not the case right now, and anyone doing so is at the mercy of WOTC.</blockquote>

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