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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4665493" data-attributes="member: 54707">If it's a Wiki and you want it to be publicly available as such, then obviously make it system neutral, with certain differences from ordinary forms. Don't make it just a D&D work, and certainly not a specific edition D&D work. You will appeal to a larger group of people and you will protect yourself from any kinds of copyright or licensing violations of attempting public disclosure of what is considered proprietary. (Depending on how closely you wish to reproduce basic game disclosures on-line. Is it just an original setting disclosure, or are you reproducing game content on-line?)Also that will cover and protect you if you want to seek a specific kind of publisher later because then your work would not have already been made publicly available on the internet.Few if any publishers would want to publish supposedly proprietary information, or a supposedly original product, if it is already publicly available at no cost. (This assumes your Wiki is freely accessible, and I got onto it easily enough). If you want to seriously pursue publication then stay off the internet altogether, except in teaser form, or heavily restrict access to your Wiki to only a few people you can trust, and so that it cannot be easily or publicly accessed, linked to, or even found by potential publishers. Yes, it is the romance of the internet that if everything is freely available this will somehow magically attract profit and publishers. It will not. Publishers make money and so do authors specifically because their work is not freely available. Otherwise people make a reputation of "giving stuff away," and "making cool stuff," not of making a profit.You can always keep any other copy of your work in any form you wish any where else so that it cannot be publicly accessed but where you can easily convert it into any format for whatever type of profit motive publication you desire. In other words it is not either/or. You can produce a "scrubbed publicly accessible form" for your Wiki and a commercial form for yourself and your publication efforts.But I wouldn't necessarily rename many creatures, etc, even if you do produce a "public form" of the work. Some ideas, names, conventions, etc. have become so universal they have almost become a thing unto themselves and would be easily recognizable to any "system."You might wanna reconsider renaming creatures and so forth if you could make them truly original in some way (even if it was in a minor way) and you wanted to publish in some medium other than gaming, such as in fictional book form.Anyways, Godspeed and good luck.By the way, the question is not really which would the fans prefer. It is, do you intend to publish this for profit at some point, or not?You can give the fans exactly what they prefer on the internet, and not turn a dime. Or you can arouse interest on the internet and later produce a commercially viable product.If you really intend commercial publication then what the fans want for free is not the issue, it is what the fans would be willing to pay for versus what you are willing to make available freely.Giving away freely to someone everything they want in the way they want it, and getting them to pay for what they want are two completely different and contradictory aims.</blockquote>

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