Is material from Unearthed Arcana allowed?
Knight Otu
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The material must get approved, as all other non-SRD Open Content.
LEW is all SRD and house rules. Open source content can be voted in by the concurrence of 3 judges, start a proposal thread. Non-open source content cannot be used for copyright reasons, but independently-generated material that is similar to Non-open source content yet sufficiently different enough to avoid copyright infringement may be voted in as a house rule (again, with a proposal thread and 3 judge's OK).
As an example, if you wanted a Red Wizard of Thay, that's not in the SRD. It is in the DMG, but the DMG is not open source content. So, short answer, you couldn't have a "Red Wizard of Thay" in EnWorld.
Now, you could have a "Blue Wizard of Fallon" that was somewhat similar to a Red Wizard of Thay. "Somewhat" similar means that you couldn't just copy the Red Wizard of Thay description out of the DMG and change "red" to "blue" and "Thay" to "Fallon" everywhere in the description, you actually have to write your own PrC that may borrow some of the concepts of the DMG RWoT.
You then put your "Blue Wizard of Fallon" into a proposal thread, people comment on it, and eventually (days to months) the judges get around to approving or disproving it as part of EnWorld.
As an example, if you wanted a Red Wizard of Thay, that's not in the SRD. It is in the DMG, but the DMG is not open source content. So, short answer, you couldn't have a "Red Wizard of Thay" in EnWorld.
Now, you could have a "Blue Wizard of Fallon" that was somewhat similar to a Red Wizard of Thay. "Somewhat" similar means that you couldn't just copy the Red Wizard of Thay description out of the DMG and change "red" to "blue" and "Thay" to "Fallon" everywhere in the description, you actually have to write your own PrC that may borrow some of the concepts of the DMG RWoT.
You then put your "Blue Wizard of Fallon" into a proposal thread, people comment on it, and eventually (days to months) the judges get around to approving or disproving it as part of EnWorld.
Knight Otu
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That reminds me that I have to bump the two current proposals again.El Jefe said:
LogicsFate
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Knight Otu said:
This should also remind you that you already voted no on this proposal
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=126789.
But thats just one no.. it takes three to shoot down a proposal
If I had anouther charater I'd propose the animal vairents but o well, maybe down the road
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IcyCool
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I understand how things get approved here in EnWorld, but for some reason, I'd gotten it into my head that Unearthed Arcana was part of the SRD. It is OGC, but anything allowed from it has to be approved, yes? And if that is the case, where might I find a list of things in UA that have been approved?
IcyCool said:
Look at the sticky threads in this forum labelled "Record". In particular, the Rules and Mechanics thread should have all crunchy house rules approved so far -- PrCs, feats, new races and the like. The fluffier stuff might be found in the Deities thread and the LEW Guide thread. Now, any material borrowed from UA will be mixed in with homebrew and other sources, but it should all be there, and there's not too much of it to browse through.
Note that if UA material is proposed as a house rule, it might be modified before being approved, so there's no guarantee that the version which we eventually adopt is identical to the published version.
LogicsFate
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It would be better to say that we used the core srd, anything else(homebrew or OGC) has to be approved
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