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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ChimericDream" data-source="post: 3203073" data-attributes="member: 43444">I'm working on a fairly expansive homebrew setting that will, by the time it's playable, be quite large. I've got 100% original setting material, and several new and altered mechanics. My question  is mainly concerning the parts of the setting that aren't open gaming content.It is my understanding (as a layman) that as long as I'm using content for personal use, or possibly for the use of my players, I can use text from copyrighted sources. However, I would like to eventually publish this as a PDF. Most likely it'll wind up being free, but if there's enough interest that I might be able to make a couple bucks off it, I may go that route. But what do I do about copyrighted content? Since the amount of copyrighted content (basically, just some spells and feats) I'm using is so small compared to the rest of the setting (SRD and original material), what sort of approach should I take?Ideally, I don't want to require people who pick up my setting to have to own a dozen different books or magazines in order to use some of the things I find most interesting. I'm sure I need to request permission from Wizards (and Paizo... that's who publishes Dragon, right?) to use their content in a free setting, and I'm almost positive I'd need to pay some kind of licensing fees if I wanted to charge. I mainly wanted to see if anyone else here had done something like this, and a thread about mechanics and copyright on another board got me to thinking about this.Thanks a bunch.</blockquote>

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