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<blockquote data-quote="Gallowglass" data-source="post: 416264" data-attributes="member: 5284">Important Distinctions!!Please be careful: &quot;Dungeons and Dragons&quot; is a Trademark of WotC/Hasbro, you absolutely must have their permission to use it in a commercial product or &quot;in public&quot; i.e. on websites. The D&amp;D Rules indeed cannot be copyrighted (a different thing to a Trademark) but the description of those rules as expressed in their rulebooks, IS very much WotC/hasbro's copyright and again using it raises serious legal issues.Hence, if you wish to play with WotC/Hasbro property (their various Trademarks), you can if you comply with the d20 System Trademark License. If you want to borrow WotC/Hasbro's forms of expression for the d20 rules (i.e. their copyright), you must comply with the Open game License and refer to the System Reference Document.Always remember teh distinction between trademark's and Copyright, it's quite important...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gallowglass, post: 416264, member: 5284"] [b]Important Distinctions!![/b] Please be careful: "Dungeons and Dragons" is a Trademark of WotC/Hasbro, you absolutely must have their permission to use it in a commercial product or "in public" i.e. on websites. The D&D Rules indeed cannot be copyrighted (a different thing to a Trademark) but the description of those rules as expressed in their rulebooks, IS very much WotC/hasbro's copyright and again using it raises serious legal issues. Hence, if you wish to play with WotC/Hasbro property (their various Trademarks), you can if you comply with the d20 System Trademark License. If you want to borrow WotC/Hasbro's forms of expression for the d20 rules (i.e. their copyright), you must comply with the Open game License and refer to the System Reference Document. Always remember teh distinction between trademark's and Copyright, it's quite important... [/QUOTE]

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