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Due to recent changes in the fan content policy, it is now legally shakey ground for anyone to draw adults only content of Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, and Axis & Allies branded content.
And to this point, I will not be doing so for the foreseeable future. This should not change my personal works as non of my medieval fantasy works derive from D&D trademarks. It has, however, cut two major IPs off from requests, commissions, and patreon rewards.
Don’t sleep on this clause of the new policy:
Your Fan Content must be free for others (including Wizards) to view, access, share, and use without paying you anything, obtaining your approval, or giving you credit.
>use
Fuck Hasbro.
uh…………..
so no porn is essentially what they’re saying.
No they are saying that they can freely distribute your art content without crediting you or compensating you. AND SO CAN EVERYONE ELSE You aren’t allowed to take commissions EVER. And if you try to fight it legally because all of this falls under Fair Use they will have you up to your neck in fines and fees. Which is, in fact, ILLEGAL. But they can get away with it because money. Hasbro has a history of this.
Please actually read the page. I promise you its not in legaleese.
This is actually extremely detrimental to a lot of artists.
“Fan Content includes fan art, videos, podcasts, blogs, websites, streaming content, tattoos, altars to your cleric’s deity, etc.“
So if I’m understanding this correctly, then even if YouTube hadn’t been working to demonetize creator content, this policy would mean D&D podcasts & vids – like Critical Role and The Adventure Zone – can’t be used to make money.
Fuck Hasbro.
WELP.
If anybody ever wants a commission of a certain tabletop roleplay character, just…y’know…don’t tell me what it’s from. Obviously completely original character no relation to anything, right?…>_>
If you do need to namedrop a system, say “Fantasy d20″. It’s the overarching supercategory that includes all of the Open Gaming Licnese knockoffs. If you want to move away from D&D, you should look into them anyway…
Pathfinder (3.5+)
Castles & Crusades (AD&D2E)
Basic Fantasy RPG, Lamentations of the Famle Princess (BX D&D + homebrew)
Labyrinth Lord (BX D&D or AD&D1E depending on the splatbooks)OSRIC (AD&D1E)
Swords & Wizardry (OD&D)Or you could just start playing a game that isn’t based on D&D like GURPS Dungeon Fantasy, Mouseguard, Earthdawn, Warhammer Fantasy RPG, Ironclaw, Palladium Fantasy, EXALTED.
Or use generics like GURPS, HERO, Fuzion, Savage Worlds, Fate, etc.
With the way Hasbro’s been mismanaging WotC, they kinda need to lose market share anyway.
Hackmaster! Don’t forget Hackmaster, it’s a great system and very akin to D&D but with many very notable improvements. XO
Just gonna add Dungeon World, Pugmire, MERPS and the fan-made elderscrolls tabletop to the list
Did some deeper research into this and just gonna put some quick notes to ease everyone’s fears:
-stuff like donations, add revenue and sponsorships aren’t affected so if your DND art comes from something like patreon or one of those “I’ll draw a picture for you if you donate 5$” things you’re 100% safe and Critical Role is sponsored by DND Beyond currently so they’re 200% safe, as well as the adventure zone even though they haven’t played dnd in a good couple months since they’re based on ad revenue
-Under the open game license, you can make any content and not have it be low key owned by wizards of the coast as long as it does not have a specific setting or uses your own original setting
-These changes have been in effect since November of 2017, so you can see how hard they’re cracking down on all this via experience or looking back on the past half year or so.
-Joining the DM’s Guild takes off some restrictions like making money off of your content if you make art or homebrew and lets you use Forgotten Realms and Ravenloft without legal repercussions (and probably more to follow)
In short, they literally say that their lawyers already have their hands tied so as long as you don’t walk up to Mister Coast Wizard himself and yell that you’re breaking the law, you should be good and again, just put a lil eraser to the “DND” part of commissions and you should be a-ok
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