List of All the Different Types of Elves

[Alzrius]

Don't they all carry the Dungeons and Dragons label, though? Or are you saying that they no longer do because of copyright changeovers?

It's not due to changeovers, its just that the other companies do not, and are not allowed to, carry the "Dungeons & Dragons" logo, despite being 100% compatible with the game.

Wizards of the Coast created the Open Gaming License back in 2000. This license allows a company to post a specific set of rules that other companies can use in their books. Once they did this, they posted the d20 License under the Open Gaming License, posting the rules mechanics (called the d20 System) of Dungeons & Dragons for other companies to use it. However, the name itself is still their copyright, and cannot be used by anyone else without permission.

Things like the Creature Collection from Sword & Sorcery Studios are d20 products that mesh perfectly with D&D, but they don't have the D&D logo anywhere, or use that name at all in the book, save for the copyright page where they say the License is based on the D&D rules made by such-and-so.

Sorry, I don't know what d20 is. I wish there was an FAQ page for all of those terms, but I'm lost in a maelstrom of links when it comes to looking for those kinds of things.

No need to apologize. Asking is how we learn, and the community wants more people to learn about these things.

As for a FAQ, that's a bit harder. There are some out there, but they assume some prior knowledge about these things. You might want to try the Wizards of the Coast d20 page. If you look on the right side of the page a little bit down, there are mutliple FAQs for both the Open Gaming License and the d20 License.

Forgive me for not knowing what all of that stuff means. I am new to the scene, afterall. Whereas most of you have played all of your lives, I've entered the picture only two years ago.

No worries!

bably a lot easier to understand than simply "Don't use it if it doesn't belong to Wizards of the Coast."

So, you're saying if the same material has been rehashed for 3e, then don't use the stuff that came before, provided it's the same thing.

For the purposes of this list, yes, that's what I meant. That's different from not using WotC stuff though, which, again just for purposes of this list, I also advocate (since there are around 60 other companies publishing d20 materials out there, listing everything they have also added to elves quickly could become unwieldy).

However, I can use older stuff that 3e hasn't touched, right? I just have to convert it as I see fit. I like the way that sounds.

For personal use, absolutely. Here's a link to WotC's handy Conversion Guide to boot: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/conversionbook.zip

If you want to post those conversions online...WotC has some policy about that, but I can't find a link to it. Someone here should know about that though.

Okay, so what worlds/monsters are obsolete that we've talked about?

If by "obselete" you mean that that world logo is not being published any longer, then most of them. Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms are still in active use, as is Ravenloft (licensed to Sword and Sorcery Studios) and Dragonlance (one book from WotC, then licensed to Sovereign Press).

 

[X-Calator]

Alright, so out of these the only ones that aren't WotC-affiliated are Scarred Lands and Kingdoms of Kalamar, right?:

Forgotten Realms
World of Greyhawk
Dragonlance
Mystara
Birthright
Dark Sun
Spelljammer
Planescape
Ravenloft
Scarred Lands
Kingdoms of Kalamar

 

[Alzrius]

Alright, so out of these the only ones that aren't WotC-affiliated are Scarred Lands and Kingdoms of Kalamar, right?:

Forgotten Realms
World of Greyhawk
Dragonlance
Mystara
Birthright
Dark Sun
Spelljammer
Planescape
Ravenloft
Scarred Lands
Kingdoms of Kalamar

Kingdoms of Kalamar products do, in fact, have the D&D logo on them. Kenzer Co. owns Kalamar, but due to a special agreement with WotC, they can use the D&D logo on their products. In that sense, KoK is WotC-affiliated.

WotC does own Ravenloft, SSS just has a special licence to make new products for that campaign, but those products don't have the D&D logo.

Scarred Lands is the only one not affiliated with WotC in any way, shape, or form.

 

[X-Calator]

Well, damn skippy, I'm happy, then!

Kingdoms of Kalamar products do, in fact, have the D&D logo on them. Kenzer Co. owns Kalamar, but due to a special agreement with WotC, they can use the D&D logo on their products. In that sense, KoK is WotC-affiliated.

Good then, KoK is the only entry I don't have elves for... anybody care to fill me in there?

 

[X-Calator]

What kind of elves live in the Kingdoms of Kalamar?

 

[Phaoz]

Kingdoms of Kalamar products do, in fact, have the D&D logo on them. Kenzer Co. owns Kalamar, but due to a special agreement with WotC, they can use the D&D logo on their products. In that sense, KoK is WotC-affiliated.


as warcraft will be when its released in july

 

[Alzrius]

as warcraft will be when its released in july

It will be WotC-affiliated, yes, but I doubt that it will have the D&D logo on it. From what I understand, though I could be wrong, it will "just" be a WotC d20 product.

 

[Gez]

I thought WotC lost the Blizzard license to Sword & Sorcery... Because WotC's Diablo conversion wasn't much good; while S&SS's Everquest RPG is a more convincing example of a computer game adapted to the d20 mechanics.

 

[BOZ]

here's a question: will the new dragonlance stuff be D&D or even d20? or will it be a completely different game system, a la Saga/5th age?

Edit: here if you don't know about it

 

[Alzrius]

Dragonlance will definately be d20 in its new incarnation, that we know. I'm assuming it will be D&D also, since it was before and WotC is publishing the new book...if, for this list, we're counting Ravenloft, and WotC hasn't even published any of that, then the new Dragonlance should definately be counted too.