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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PMárk" data-source="post: 6921064" data-attributes="member: 6804619">A license means the material the licensee puts out IS official, because WotC acknowledges it as such. If you make some FR material and I make some too then bot of us puts them out in DMsG, neither is official. WotC just allowed us to make fan-fiction and publish it on their platform. For example, if Kobold Press would receive an official license for Planescape and then puts out a Planescape CG, that would be THE official Planescape version for 5e as long as WotC doesn't withdraw the license and makes their own. Your and mine Planescape documents on DMsG wouldn't be official material. It's not the distribution channel that matters, it's the official license that matters.  Or, if I'm putting out an FR material on DMsG that contradicts WotC's material, their material is the official and not mine regardless of I'm allowed to use the setting.I'd correct my argument: "Also, while 3rd parties are making excellent things, they can't make the  old WotC settings in a way that counts as the official iterations of those settings in 5e. The Blight, Primeval Thule, Middle Earth are still  not Ravenloft, Planescape, Spelljammer or FR. If WotC would license out  these settings as they did with RL in 3e, I'd have zero objections."And I think the big 3rd parties won't make any comprehensive material, or really any material for the D&D settings for 5e, exactly because the danger of WotC putting out their own official material for those at any time, thus invalidating their work. </blockquote>

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