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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 905451" data-attributes="member: 8461">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.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 <a href="http://wizards.com/D20/main.asp?x=welcome,3" target="_blank">Wizards of the Coast d20 page</a>. 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.No worries! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />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).For personal use, absolutely. Here's a link to WotC's handy Conversion Guide to boot: <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/conversionbook.zip" target="_blank">http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/conversionbook.zip</a>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.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).</blockquote>

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