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<blockquote data-quote="Rabulias" data-source="post: 8592471" data-attributes="member: 16651">IANAL, but I don't think making game statistics for fictional characters in works still under copyright violates copyright*. Back in the day, Dragon Magazine presented D&amp;D/AD&amp;D stats for many fictional characters without a problem. There were also some Top Secret stats and Boot Hill stats for film and TV characters, IIRC.As I understood the Deities &amp; Demigods issue it was more of a licensing issue. Chaosium has acquired the rights to produce game statistics for its Call of Cthulhu game and Elric! games. Another company producing game stats of those same creatures for another game system violated that license, but Chaosium allowed TSR to continue to do so with an acknowledgement. Later printings of Deities &amp; Demigods included &quot;Special thanks are also given to Chaosium, Inc. for permission to use the material found in the Cthulhu Mythos and the Melnibonean Mythos.&quot; But this agreement with Chaosium soured and the Cthulhu Mythos and the Melnibonean Mythos needed to be removed. (Side note: the acknowledgment remained in many later printings, even after the two mythoi were removed.)* Unless such works of fiction also included game stats and one copied them exactly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rabulias, post: 8592471, member: 16651"] IANAL, but I don't think making game statistics for fictional characters in works still under copyright violates copyright*. Back in the day, [I]Dragon Magazine [/I]presented D&D/AD&D stats for many fictional characters without a problem. There were also some [I]Top Secret [/I]stats and [I]Boot Hill[/I] stats for film and TV characters, IIRC. As I understood the [I]Deities & Demigods[/I] issue it was more of a licensing issue. Chaosium has acquired the rights to produce game statistics for its [I]Call of Cthulhu[/I] game and [I]Elric![/I] games. Another company producing game stats of those same creatures for another game system violated that license, but Chaosium allowed TSR to continue to do so with an acknowledgement. Later printings of [I]Deities & Demigods[/I] included "Special thanks are also given to Chaosium, Inc. for permission to use the material found in the Cthulhu Mythos and the Melnibonean Mythos." But this agreement with Chaosium soured and the Cthulhu Mythos and the Melnibonean Mythos needed to be removed. (Side note: the acknowledgment remained in many later printings, even after the two mythoi were removed.) * Unless such works of fiction also included game stats and one copied them exactly. ;) [/QUOTE]

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