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<blockquote data-quote="Tharivious" data-source="post: 3458263" data-attributes="member: 28105">Planeswalker.com is official material, to my knowledge, as WotC had no plans of reviving the Planescape line (and ultimately, made doing so needlessly difficult by suddenly retconning the cosmologies so that no two settings overlapped).&nbsp; Shortly after 3E was released, I believe the operators of the site approached the company, and got the go-ahead to start converting Planescape as a free product.&nbsp; One (or more) of their principal contributors has also been published in Dragon magazine, lending further credibility to the official nature of that site.Mimir, I believe, falls under &quot;fair usage&quot; as a non-profit reference and resource site for an out of print setting, but might also have some measure of legal permission to go beyond that.&nbsp; Don't quote me, there.And none of the setting material falls under the Open Game Liscence.OGL applies strictly to the game mechanics presented in the three Core Rulebooks, Deities &amp; Demigods, Epic Level Handbook, and (if I remember right) the variant rules presented in Unearthed Arcana (though it doesn't appear in the SRD as of my last check), stripped of all but minimal descriptive text and all flavor text.&nbsp; Anything else is deemed signature Intellectual Property, and thereby not included, which is the reason that mind flayers, beholders, and the slaad are not found in the System Reference Document collection, and why none of the gods carry over (naturally, the majority of monsters are based on real-world myth, which is why they fall into the OGL as they're just as derivitive as any 3rd party's material).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tharivious, post: 3458263, member: 28105"] Planeswalker.com is official material, to my knowledge, as WotC had no plans of reviving the Planescape line (and ultimately, made doing so needlessly difficult by suddenly retconning the cosmologies so that no two settings overlapped). Shortly after 3E was released, I believe the operators of the site approached the company, and got the go-ahead to start converting Planescape as a free product. One (or more) of their principal contributors has also been published in Dragon magazine, lending further credibility to the official nature of that site. Mimir, I believe, falls under "fair usage" as a non-profit reference and resource site for an out of print setting, but might also have some measure of legal permission to go beyond that. Don't quote me, there. And none of the setting material falls under the Open Game Liscence. OGL applies strictly to the game mechanics presented in the three Core Rulebooks, Deities & Demigods, Epic Level Handbook, and (if I remember right) the variant rules presented in Unearthed Arcana (though it doesn't appear in the SRD as of my last check), stripped of all but minimal descriptive text and all flavor text. Anything else is deemed signature Intellectual Property, and thereby not included, which is the reason that mind flayers, beholders, and the slaad are not found in the System Reference Document collection, and why none of the gods carry over (naturally, the majority of monsters are based on real-world myth, which is why they fall into the OGL as they're just as derivitive as any 3rd party's material). [/QUOTE]

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