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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tewligan" data-source="post: 635956" data-attributes="member: 2191"><p>I've got a question that I was hoping someone in the know might be able to help me with.  I'm getting to a point in my miniature sculpting that I'm starting to entertain the idea of sculpting and casting miniatures for sale sometime down the road.  More specifically, I'm thinking of doing orcs, kobolds, and various creatures that often appear in large numbers, so that a DM could buy a bag of these fodder-types cheaply.  Anyway, if I did so, I would want them to (obviously) look like the creature they represent, and be armed and armored as per the MM description and art.  Would that be violating any sort of IP laws?  Of course, I've seen illustrations of various MM creatures in various third party products, but I was wondering if the laws change if the image (or model, in this case) is the sole product being sold.  I know that Reaper has a mind flayer lookalike that they don't actually call a mind flayer - would I have to call kobolds "tiny dragonmen", or something to that effect?</p></blockquote><p></p>