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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7159254" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Okay, I’m beginning to understand why this seems so complicated for you. Here is a serious question, and I think the only one that matters. Do you plan on publishing or streaming your setting? I’ve created a homebrew world, it is not Forgotten Realms and I do plan on streaming RPG games one day when I have the resources, so that may become an issue for me. However, I’m not planning on selling my setting. It’s not good enough for that. So, frankly, until I get a Cease and Desist on a streaming channel that does not yet exist I am doing whatever I please because they have no reason to stop me.IF you’re planning on selling your homebrew world, yes, the SRD is incomplete to the point of ridiculous and makes your life difficult. If you just want to run games at your FLGS… you don’t need to worry about that legal stuff. WoTC is not going to show up at your table with Cease and Desist orders because you aren’t playing in the Forgotten Realms. Trust me, if they were doing that these forums and others would light up like Christmas trees and the backlash would wreck the company.  Frankly, I doubt they even mess with live streamed games either. Critical Role is explicitly not in FR and Mercer has put a few classes on DMs Guild and even worked out a deal to get his setting published. He’s had a hard time rewriting somethings (can’t use Sarenray after all because Pathfinder) but the stream has been chugging along with no legal challenges to my knowledge. So, if you are not choosing to publish, use anything you like. Spell lists make sense, that is rules text, but what about setting material?IF I post a setting where elves and dwarves live in harmony under the sea, WoTC can’t tell me that my homebrew setting violates their IP. Maybe they could if I claimed it was a DnD setting, but that is a slippery line if I say “this is the setting I used for my DnD campaign” because I could move that setting into different systems and then it isn’t a DnD setting, it is just a setting. There is a tumblr friends of mine go to all the time that is overflowing with homebrewed monsters and classes and races, some of which are from things like Dark Souls which is a very specific setting and would seem to cause them problems with both DnD and the video game company. Yet, they are still up there. Also, technically, a setting could be under a different SRD. How restrictive is the 3.5 SRD or the 4e SRD in terms of setting material? Evil Hat, Pathfinder? It’d be a nightmare to pursue something like that in terms of someone posting city names and a continent and saying this is the setting they used for their college game. As long as you avoid selling your setting or claiming it to be official, I don’t think you are really going to get a lot of flak. And if you need to change the rules, well, you print that part out and hand it to the players directly.</blockquote>

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