I’ve emphasized the pertinent bits below -
Please note that this Fan Site Policy does not allow you to publish, distribute or sell your own free-to-use games, modules or applications for any of Wizards’ brands including, but not limited to, Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering. If you want to engage in any of these activities related to Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, such use is subject to the Game System License http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/welcome. For questions concerning digital rights for all other Wizards brands, please visit www.wizards.com/customerservice.
Is there any way to read other than if you write a module, using 100% of your own work from the layout to the creatures (or not), that you run the risk of the Wizards legal team from doing everything from a C&D to a full blown lawsuit against you?
So Asmor’s monster creature, being an application to create monsters for 4th edition is illegal in spite of the great help it provided to everyone?
An excel based character sheet? Does that fall under the application rule? So now you can’t offer those up for download?
Do home brew classes, monsters, spells, feats? Is Wizards claiming those are illegal?
It sounds very much like they’re wanting to be the sole provider of anything D&D related. Â You shant play anything but official material, read anything but official material or use anything but official material in your game.
Or maybe I’m reading that wrong, perhaps they’re not the newest [world war 2 organization reference] or [nutcase religious group founded by a crackpot reference that sues anyone and everyone] on the block. Perhaps they’re not. Time will certainly tell won’t it….
August 12th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
To those with interests in this – i.e. running fan sites – it was known since a few months before the release of 4e. You’re noticing this a bit late, Dennis. Sorry for your delayed pain.
And yeah, it does say what it appears to be saying. Quite a problem for the whole gamut of fan sites like Athas.org and the others for the various cancelled D&D campaign settings.
August 12th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
A day late I suppose.
Still it’s incredibly stupid of them on so many levels.