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<blockquote data-quote="JoesephBear" data-source="post: 5816661" data-attributes="member: 98378">Kudos to the OP, as I am currently involved in the very same kind of personal project.My advice is to make a vary simple layout in Microsoft Word or Open Office. This is where you will be doing all your primary writing. It should be neat and organized so you can find things easily. This will be for your own benefit, as it is simply a prototype to help keep you organized.Download some freeware layout software and start playing around. Learn. Get your hands messy. See what you can do to replicate the 4e book style. Go nuts and have fun.As for avoiding getting a C&amp;D, make sure you don't distribute content from the 4e books. You will need to restrict any copy-pasting to language found in the 3.5 SRD and other Open Content from OGL products (which covers pretty much everything D&amp;D related). Don't worry about trade dress or using beholders or any of that finicky nonsense. Just don't copy from the 4e books and you should be fine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JoesephBear, post: 5816661, member: 98378"] Kudos to the OP, as I am currently involved in the very same kind of personal project. My advice is to make a vary simple layout in Microsoft Word or Open Office. This is where you will be doing all your primary writing. It should be neat and organized so you can find things easily. This will be for your own benefit, as it is simply a prototype to help keep you organized. Download some freeware layout software and start playing around. Learn. Get your hands messy. See what you can do to replicate the 4e book style. Go nuts and have fun. As for avoiding getting a C&D, make sure you don't distribute content from the 4e books. You will need to restrict any copy-pasting to language found in the 3.5 SRD and other Open Content from OGL products (which covers pretty much everything D&D related). Don't worry about trade dress or using beholders or any of that finicky nonsense. Just don't copy from the 4e books and you should be fine. [/QUOTE]

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