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<blockquote data-quote="CharlesRyan" data-source="post: 4660615" data-attributes="member: 5265">In a word, yes.*D&amp;D is WotC's sandbox. If you want to build sandcastles in it, you gotta be their friend and play by their rules.Don't like that? No problem. Play D&amp;D in the privacy of your own home, or at cons or your local shop or whatever, just like millions of other people. Just don't make a D&amp;D web site.I can sense your concern: Who wants to build a labour of love that someone else can destroy at a whim? Unfortunately, that's the playing field for fan sites. But don't lose too much sleep over it: Just because WotC is a business doesn't make it evil or capricious. WotC cares about D&amp;D, which means it cares about the D&amp;D community, which means it cares about the possibility of offending tens of thousands of hardcore fans. WotC spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to get people to like D&amp;D. They aren't about to reverse all of that on a whim.* (Or more technically, no. You can run a site that doesn't play by their rules, but you'd better be darn sure you don't cross any infringement lines. Which probably rules out a lot of what you'd want to do with a fan site anyway.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CharlesRyan, post: 4660615, member: 5265"] In a word, yes.* D&D is WotC's sandbox. If you want to build sandcastles in it, you gotta be their friend and play by their rules. Don't like that? No problem. Play D&D in the privacy of your own home, or at cons or your local shop or whatever, just like millions of other people. Just don't make a D&D web site. I can sense your concern: Who wants to build a labour of love that someone else can destroy at a whim? Unfortunately, that's the playing field for fan sites. But don't lose too much sleep over it: Just because WotC is a business doesn't make it evil or capricious. WotC cares about D&D, which means it cares about the D&D community, which means it cares about the possibility of offending tens of thousands of hardcore fans. WotC spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to get people to like D&D. They aren't about to reverse all of that on a whim. * (Or more technically, no. You can run a site that [I]doesn't[/I] play by their rules, but you'd better be [I]darn[/I] sure you don't cross any infringement lines. Which probably rules out a lot of what you'd want to do with a fan site anyway.) [/QUOTE]

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