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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7661170" data-attributes="member: 42582">For me, this is the sticking point. The guidance is clear: comply with WotC's intellectual property rights.That may not be the guidance you are hoping for, but it is nevertheless pretty clear guidance.For those who want to publish for money, I would suggest that legal advice might be desirable.For those who want to publish for fun, the stakes are overall much lower. In that case, I would say it is pretty simple:(i) Don't reproduce any text from WotC products verbatim (this goes for their free products as well as their for-sale products); (ii) Don't use any WotC images except in accordance with the Fan Site policy discussed upthread; (iii) Don't try and pass yourself as WotC (and the Fan Site policy includes some WotC-approved disclaimer text for just this purpose).This is not legal advice, of course. Nevertheless, I think if you follows (i) through (iii) you will probably avoid infringing any copyrights or trademarks/trade dress rights that WotC owns with your not-for-profit, "for fun" fan-created content.For the sake of clarity - the people who have been getting polite messages and/or requests to C&D have not been creating their own content. They have been reproducing, without permission, WotC content. That is what WotC has stopped them doing.You might wish that things were otherwise - eg that fans of D&D has some sort of rights in respect of WotC-owned content. You might even be right about that! (I'm not expressing a view.) But the law is very clear.Conversely, if you want to create your own content, I think it's easy to do so . You don't need a licence from WotC if you are creating your own content rather than reproducing theirs: see steps (i) through (iii) above for some thoughts on how to avoid infringing WotC rights.Have you heard of anyone being contacted by WotC for creating their own content for 5e?</blockquote>

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