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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 3462379" data-attributes="member: 8461">I'm also a freelancer, in that I'm not employed by a company, but here are some things I've picked up in my time in the industry.You absolutely cannot use the Core Rulebooks at all. As far as the Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual, Expanded Psionics Handbook, Epic Level Handbook, and Deities and Demigods are concerned, even though they have had some of their material reproduced in the SRD, you cannot use the books themselves; just the material that is reproduced in the SRD. The most you can do is refer to the books (usually with specific abbreviations, and to specific sections, but not page numbers).Books that have the OGL in them will have designations of both Product Identity and Open Game Content (such as Unearthed Arcana). In this case, you can use the designated Open Game Content (so long as no part of it also falls within the Product Identity), though you need to cite everything in that book's Section 15 in your own Section 15 as well.Remember that using the d20 STL (as opposed to just the OGL directly) has a few additional restrictions, such as the decency guidelines, not printing rules for character creation, etc.Again, stick to just the SRD, or the clearly-expressed Open Game Content in books that have the OGL in them.Are you talking for a printed book, or for a PDF? For a PDF, I find that the price doesn't increase directly compared to the page count. For a fifty-page release, I'd suggest around $8 or so, but that's just my opinion as a customer.There's really nothing I can offer here. I'm not a lawyer, and have no experience publishing my own PDFs. My one word of advice is that you might want to look into the legal side of starting your own business, since if you intend to publish this yourself, it might entail some legal issues if you do so as a company.While I think RPGNow (that is, OneBookShelf) does publish some things, they're a vendor more than a publisher, being an online store more than a company that actually creates the products. Creating a company can be an expensive enterprise, and you may want to consider selling your freelance work to an established company. If you do want to publish it yourself, you might want to check out Your Games Now, a new storefront that recently opened up. But I urge you to find out more about self-publishing d20 PDFs before you start deciding on a vendor to sell your first product; don't put the cart before the horse.It's hard to say here. There are quite a few pirate-themed d20 books out, but I don't have a read on how many or how good they are. Judging the market for a product is, I think, something that's hard for even industry veterans to do.Hope that helps!  <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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