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<blockquote data-quote="Big Mac" data-source="post: 4189441" data-attributes="member: 61182">I don't think anyone answered this properly.WotC provide a licence called the <a href="http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/ESDpolicy.rtf" target="_blank">ESD Conversion Agreement</a> to allow people to do conversions to 3rd edition. This licence allows you to use their IP, but requires you to add a notice that they own the IP. The text of the licence (that is supposed to be added to any conversions) declares any names as Product Identity, but also gives you permission to use that PI in non-profit ways.The <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/dx20010309x" target="_blank">Classics Downloads FAQ</a> has a couple of questions about the use of conversions. It basically says that if you pay to download a PDF, you can only publish the conversions themselves. But if you download a free PDF from the ones on the <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads" target="_blank">Previous Edition Downloads</a> page, you can merge the conversion into the original text and create a fully converted 3rd edition version of the product!With the additional rules in the Classics Downloads FAQ being very well hiden, I've only seen a couple of people put up fully complete conversions. Maybe when you guys have got all the monsters done it will be easier for people to do a full set of integrated PDFs for everything on the Previous Editions Downloads page.EDIT: I've just re-read the ESD Conversion agreement and it seems to require the use of both the OGL and the d20STL. The d20STL is being discontinued soon, so I'm not sure what that implies for the ESD Conversion Agreement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Big Mac, post: 4189441, member: 61182"] I don't think anyone answered this properly. WotC provide a licence called the [URL=http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/ESDpolicy.rtf]ESD Conversion Agreement[/URL] to allow people to do conversions to 3rd edition. This licence allows you to use their IP, but requires you to add a notice that they own the IP. The text of the licence (that is supposed to be added to any conversions) declares any names as Product Identity, but also gives you permission to use that PI in non-profit ways. The [URL=http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/dx20010309x]Classics Downloads FAQ[/URL] has a couple of questions about the use of conversions. It basically says that if you pay to download a PDF, you can only publish the conversions themselves. But if you download a free PDF from the ones on the [URL=http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads]Previous Edition Downloads[/URL] page, you can merge the conversion into the original text and create a fully converted 3rd edition version of the product! With the additional rules in the Classics Downloads FAQ being very well hiden, I've only seen a couple of people put up fully complete conversions. Maybe when you guys have got all the monsters done it will be easier for people to do a full set of integrated PDFs for everything on the Previous Editions Downloads page. [B]EDIT:[/B] I've just re-read the ESD Conversion agreement and it seems to require the use of both the OGL [B]and[/B] the d20STL. The d20STL is being discontinued soon, so I'm not sure what that implies for the ESD Conversion Agreement. [/QUOTE]

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