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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8834032" data-attributes="member: 6915329"><p>Again, the words "wizard" and "mage" are not protected by the SRD.</p><p></p><p>Here's a list of the things you can't say:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Forgotten Realms</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Faerûn</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Proper names attached to spells and magic items (<em>Heward's handy haversack, Leomund's tiny hut, Bigby's hand,</em> etc.; but you can say <em>tiny hut</em> and that's cool)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Underdark</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Red Wizard of Thay</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">the City of Union</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Heroic Domains of Ysgard</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">EverChanging Chaos of Limbo</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Windswept Depths of Pandemonium</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Infinite Layers of the Abyss</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Tarterian Depths of Carceri</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Gray Waste of Hades</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Bleak Eternity of Gehenna</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Nine Hells of Baator</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Infernal Battlefield of Acheron</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Seven Mounting Heavens of Celestia</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Twin Paradises of Bytopia</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Blessed Fields of Elysium</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Wilderness of the Beastlands</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Olympian Glades of Arborea</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Concordant Domain of the Outlands</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sigil</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Lady of Pain</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Book of Exalted Deeds</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Book of Vile Darkness</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">beholder</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">gauth</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">carrion crawler</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">tanar’ri</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">baatezu</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">displacer beast</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">githyanki</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">githzerai</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">mind flayer</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">illithid</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">umber hulk</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">yuan-ti</li> </ol><p>I'm pretty sure you can write and publish a ton of stuff without using any of those 39 terms. Lots of people on this board, including myself, have successfully put out 3pp without getting sued. <em>And </em>the folks at DriveThruRPG will actually look through the works of first-time publishers to make sure they haven't made any mistakes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8834032, member: 6915329"] Again, the words "wizard" and "mage" are not protected by the SRD. Here's a list of the things you can't say: [LIST=1] [*]Forgotten Realms [*]Faerûn [*]Proper names attached to spells and magic items ([I]Heward's handy haversack, Leomund's tiny hut, Bigby's hand,[/I] etc.; but you can say [I]tiny hut[/I] and that's cool) [*]Underdark [*]Red Wizard of Thay [*]the City of Union [*]Heroic Domains of Ysgard [*]EverChanging Chaos of Limbo [*]Windswept Depths of Pandemonium [*]Infinite Layers of the Abyss [*]Tarterian Depths of Carceri [*]Gray Waste of Hades [*]Bleak Eternity of Gehenna [*]Nine Hells of Baator [*]Infernal Battlefield of Acheron [*]Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus [*]Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia [*]Seven Mounting Heavens of Celestia [*]Twin Paradises of Bytopia [*]Blessed Fields of Elysium [*]Wilderness of the Beastlands [*]Olympian Glades of Arborea [*]Concordant Domain of the Outlands [*]Sigil [*]Lady of Pain [*]Book of Exalted Deeds [*]Book of Vile Darkness [*]beholder [*]gauth [*]carrion crawler [*]tanar’ri [*]baatezu [*]displacer beast [*]githyanki [*]githzerai [*]mind flayer [*]illithid [*]umber hulk [*]yuan-ti [/LIST] I'm pretty sure you can write and publish a ton of stuff without using any of those 39 terms. Lots of people on this board, including myself, have successfully put out 3pp without getting sued. [I]And [/I]the folks at DriveThruRPG will actually look through the works of first-time publishers to make sure they haven't made any mistakes. [/QUOTE]
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