Posting PDFs of Starter Set PCs - Trouble?

[AnthonyRoberson]

As a community service, I was thinking about recreating the PCs from the D&D Starter Set using the Character Builder Beta, printing them to PDF and then posting them on my blog. This way Starter Set owners can print them out, complete with power cards, instead of cutting up their rulebook.

I am NOT asking for legal advice here, but does anyone think that I will get a nastygram from WotC if I do this? I don't want to waste my time creating and putting them up if I just have to take them down again...

 

[malraux]

Since the whole thing is in open beta now, at a minimum you should be ok posting the saved files for the pregens. Are they different (other than being corrected) from the KotS pregens located here?

 

[Imban]

I am NOT asking for legal advice here, but does anyone think that I will get a nastygram from WotC if I do this? I don't want to waste my time creating and putting them up if I just have to take them down again...

Crystalkeep hasn't gotten a nastygram from WotC yet. Also, lv1-3 content from the corebooks (which I believe summarizes everything in the starter set) is available even to unregistered users of the Compendium, so it's essentially free (as in beer, not as in freedom) content already.

But given that Crystalkeep is still up, I think anything short of wholesale reproduction of subscriber-only articles or distributing full copies of the rules for free won't draw WotC's ire. And practically, that's what matters.

 

[AnthonyRoberson]

Since the whole thing is in open beta now, at a minimum you should be ok posting the saved files for the pregens. Are they different (other than being corrected) from the KotS pregens located here?

Oops. That does indeed look like the same ones. No need for my little project now I guess!