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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6798231" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>The safest things is just not to go there, if you can at all avoid it. Don't try and publish some rules that are like that. Do something else.</p><p></p><p>IANAL, but what you could probably get away with, legally speaking, is some sort of text swap. If you <strong>really</strong> need, say, the Wood Elf, for your product to be complete for whatever reason, and you can't go with the DM's Guild, you could re-write the wood elf from the PHB and as long as it wasn't a copy-paste job, you'd likely be OK. Change a few cosmetic things if you want to be extra-safe. </p><p></p><p>But I think the key question would be, <em>why do you need the wood elf?</em> If you're just self-publishing your homebrew setting, do you need to be explicit about wood elves and reproduce their abilities? And is it important that they are exactly the same as the WotC's wood elf? </p><p></p><p>I'd hope that the lack of a wood elf would inspire people to think about what they could use <em>instead of wood elves</em>, and add interesting and creative new ideas to the world. I get that that's not always possible, but I'd really hope that folks would seriously examine the elements that they'd like to reproduce (but for SRD not including them) and ask themselves if it's something that's really all that vital to what they're writing. Polishing the serial numbers off the WotC wood elf should be a last resort.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6798231, member: 2067"] The safest things is just not to go there, if you can at all avoid it. Don't try and publish some rules that are like that. Do something else. IANAL, but what you could probably get away with, legally speaking, is some sort of text swap. If you [B]really[/B] need, say, the Wood Elf, for your product to be complete for whatever reason, and you can't go with the DM's Guild, you could re-write the wood elf from the PHB and as long as it wasn't a copy-paste job, you'd likely be OK. Change a few cosmetic things if you want to be extra-safe. But I think the key question would be, [I]why do you need the wood elf?[/I] If you're just self-publishing your homebrew setting, do you need to be explicit about wood elves and reproduce their abilities? And is it important that they are exactly the same as the WotC's wood elf? I'd hope that the lack of a wood elf would inspire people to think about what they could use [I]instead of wood elves[/I], and add interesting and creative new ideas to the world. I get that that's not always possible, but I'd really hope that folks would seriously examine the elements that they'd like to reproduce (but for SRD not including them) and ask themselves if it's something that's really all that vital to what they're writing. Polishing the serial numbers off the WotC wood elf should be a last resort. [/QUOTE]
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