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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6189322" data-attributes="member: 37579">You could make a compatible product yes, but not a replacement. So you could add supplemental material at most.However, you can't use the Trademarks of a company in your advertising, or as a competitive product. Look at Pathfinder. You'll be hard pressed to see them refer to &quot;Dungeons &amp; Dragons&quot; or &quot;D&amp;D&quot;. Instead they refer to &quot;the 3rd edition if the world's oldest rolepaying game.&quot;Check out the PF Core Rulebook that says:Based on the original roleplaying game rules designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and inspired by the third edition of the game designed by Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Skip Williams, Richard Baker, and Peter Adkison.And &quot;confusing the products&quot; can be vague. If lawyers can make a case that your book of house rules could in any way be conceived as mistaken for actual rules then it's a problem. I've seen 3e fan projects shut down for refering &quot;samurai&quot; and &quot;ninjas&quot; as those could be mistaken for the official versions published by WotC. WotC's lawyers decide what is confusing products as you have to prove otherwise. It'a much easier to prove guilt in civil court where there's no &quot;innocent until proven guilty&quot;. That's if they don't go right to your ISP with a shutdown request.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6189322, member: 37579"] You could make a compatible product yes, but not a replacement. So you could add supplemental material at most. However, you can't use the Trademarks of a company in your advertising, or as a competitive product. Look at Pathfinder. You'll be hard pressed to see them refer to "Dungeons & Dragons" or "D&D". Instead they refer to "the 3rd edition if the world's oldest rolepaying game." Check out the PF Core Rulebook that says: Based on the original roleplaying game rules designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and inspired by the third edition of the game designed by Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Skip Williams, Richard Baker, and Peter Adkison. And "confusing the products" can be vague. If lawyers can make a case that your book of house rules could in any way be conceived as mistaken for actual rules then it's a problem. I've seen 3e fan projects shut down for refering "samurai" and "ninjas" as those could be mistaken for the official versions published by WotC. WotC's lawyers decide what is confusing products as you have to prove otherwise. It'a much easier to prove guilt in civil court where there's no "innocent until proven guilty". That's if they don't go right to your ISP with a shutdown request. [/QUOTE]

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