I am working on a homebrew PDF that I will be handing out to players who join my game. I made a world for a book I wrote long ago, and have decided to change up some of the races to better fit with my world. To set the record straight, I do not plan on publishing this book, I will only be handing it out to players who wish to play in my game. They will still be required to get the core rule books for classes, spells, feats, rules, and all that good stuff. The only thing I am adding from the D&D PHB are the races as I am going to be changing them for my world.
My legal question is, is this okay? Since I am going to only hand it out to players who already own the books, does this fall into a white area, or since I am going to be giving out information from the book is it a black area? Or is it a gray area?
I've looked around on google and found topics on OGL, SRD, Open D20, but nothing that really relates to my situation since I am not making a whole new game, or publishing this. To me, it's only for personal use and would be no different than someone using my copy of the PHB to make a character, though I am going to have races in this PDF. Problem is, I am going to be giving this out online since I run my games on Roll20, and I have no control over what someone does with it, and I guess it could be seen as making copies and handing them out.
My legal question is, is this okay? Since I am going to only hand it out to players who already own the books, does this fall into a white area, or since I am going to be giving out information from the book is it a black area? Or is it a gray area?
I've looked around on google and found topics on OGL, SRD, Open D20, but nothing that really relates to my situation since I am not making a whole new game, or publishing this. To me, it's only for personal use and would be no different than someone using my copy of the PHB to make a character, though I am going to have races in this PDF. Problem is, I am going to be giving this out online since I run my games on Roll20, and I have no control over what someone does with it, and I guess it could be seen as making copies and handing them out.
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