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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CinnamonPixie" data-source="post: 4429393" data-attributes="member: 59187">I don't think that's correct. I think you COULD put a stat card with the mini - you couldn't use the D&D name on it without some sort of license agreement, that's true. The stats couldn't include anything from the licensed-only material (as far as abilities, powers, etc), but there is no way for WotC to legally restrict the basic mechanics of the game. There is no protection for the rules of a game - only the trademarks, the rule book (meaning the actual book itself - which includes layout, typography, specific diction, etc), and of course specific non-universally recognizable or inspired creations contained within it. You could very well make a miniature and include a basic generic stat card with it, so long as you didn't use the exact wording from the PHB/MM/DMG (or any other book WotC has put out for that matter), and be within your legal rights to do so and to sell it. I think you could probably get away with something like "Compatible with the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition rules" too - just look at all the "knock-off" products for anything and everything out there (or the 'clones' or 'clone-like addons' for products out there). Derrivative and inspired works are allowed under our (US) copyright laws too - and that includes things like stating compatibility or comparison to official productions of a product identity.</blockquote>