I really do not know where to post this or if I should have just tried to contact the devs directly, but I am basically hoping that some sorts of deals can be worked out with companies that publish other games that use 5E rules. Sure, I could just type in all the info for Adventures in Middle Earth into the homebrew section, but I would rather be able to buy a reasonably priced data set instead.
I really do not know where to post this or if I should have just tried to contact the devs directly, but I am basically hoping that some sorts of deals can be worked out with companies that publish other games that use 5E rules. Sure, I could just type in all the info for Adventures in Middle Earth into the homebrew section, but I would rather be able to buy a reasonably priced data set instead.
To be clear, unless you have the go-ahead from Tolkien's estate, you cannot "just type in all the info for Adventures in Middle Earth into the homebrew section".
I wouldn't mind DDB reaching out to other 5e style products and offering support, but I really hope we're classy enough individuals to where we won't just straight up steal content from titles such as the Adventures in Middle-Earth or Tome of Beasts books.
I really do not know where to post this or if I should have just tried to contact the devs directly, but I am basically hoping that some sorts of deals can be worked out with companies that publish other games that use 5E rules. Sure, I could just type in all the info for Adventures in Middle Earth into the homebrew section, but I would rather be able to buy a reasonably priced data set instead.
To be clear, unless you have the go-ahead from Tolkien's estate, you cannot "just type in all the info for Adventures in Middle Earth into the homebrew section".
To be extra clear, you can type in all the data you wish to use - recreating the entirety of a published book - but this must remain 'Private' and cannot be published to the community.
I think the OP meant that s/he would type in the AiME content for their personal use, not to be distributed to others.
Exactly. It would be for my private use and not in any way shared with anyone, either for free or for any kind of payment. I know what I can and cannot legally do with a book that I legally purchased. I also know that the legal areas regarding pdf's is much greyer, at least here in the US, so anything I did for my personal use would be done using the physical copy of a book.
I think the OP meant that s/he would type in the AiME content for their personal use, not to be distributed to others.
Exactly. It would be for my private use and not in any way shared with anyone, either for free or for any kind of payment. I know what I can and cannot legally do with a book that I legally purchased. I also know that the legal areas regarding pdf's is much greyer, at least here in the US, so anything I did for my personal use would be done using the physical copy of a book.
US copyright law is not grey, most people just ignore it. Copypasta-ing a PDF or transcribing a print book without the author's permission into DDB is just as illegal as making a photocopy of a book. It doesn't matter if you share it with someone else. It doesn't matter if you make money from it. Unless you're teaching or making a satire of D&D, you'll be breaking the law when you make a copy. You're allowed some leeway with regards to excerpting, but anything that allows you to play without the physical copy is unlikely to pass muster.
That said, it's pretty unlikely you'd get caught, and if you did get caught it's probably not worth the author's while to have you punished. And whether or not violating copyright is against your moral code is a different matter. But legally it's not very grey.
Utterly false, sir. You can make as many copies as you want, of anything you own, for personal use. Private homebrew is personal use only, as opposed to published homebrew, which others can then access and use. I can photocopy my books or scan them to PDF, burn my CDs to MP3, make digital backups of my DVDs. All perfectly legal
EDIT: And to the OPs point - I absolutely agree this is a priority. So much fantastic 3PP content out there that could be accessed!
I really do not know where to post this or if I should have just tried to contact the devs directly, but I am basically hoping that some sorts of deals can be worked out with companies that publish other games that use 5E rules. Sure, I could just type in all the info for Adventures in Middle Earth into the homebrew section, but I would rather be able to buy a reasonably priced data set instead.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile.
I wouldn't mind DDB reaching out to other 5e style products and offering support, but I really hope we're classy enough individuals to where we won't just straight up steal content from titles such as the Adventures in Middle-Earth or Tome of Beasts books.
Let's encourage people to be original.
I think the OP meant that s/he would type in the AiME content for their personal use, not to be distributed to others.
Utterly false, sir. You can make as many copies as you want, of anything you own, for personal use. Private homebrew is personal use only, as opposed to published homebrew, which others can then access and use. I can photocopy my books or scan them to PDF, burn my CDs to MP3, make digital backups of my DVDs. All perfectly legal
EDIT: And to the OPs point - I absolutely agree this is a priority. So much fantastic 3PP content out there that could be accessed!