ok so I've been working on my own campaign setting for almost two years now I've created a whole new world, pantheon, like 25 or so races and a bunch of new subclasses I've seen other modules mention how races like humans, dwarves, elves, tieflings, gnomes and the rest of the base races fit into the world am I allowed to include lore for noncore races like the aasimar, minotaurs, orc, centaurs and similar races that are from real-world mythology and how they tie in?
in addition, can I mention races like the genasi and tabaxi (who as far as I've found are exclusive to d&d) and how they tie into the world?
as a final note, I have excluded what I've found to be specifically from wizards that is super copyrighted such as the gith/mind flayers/beholders
originally it was meant to be a project to keep my mind off my poor mental health at the time but it really picked up with a lot of other players telling me they enjoy the content so I'm thinking ill eventually move to sell the module so im just trying to cover my bases so i can avoid legal issue
ok so I've been working on my own campaign setting for almost two years now I've created a whole new world, pantheon, like 25 or so races and a bunch of new subclasses I've seen other modules mention how races like humans, dwarves, elves, tieflings, gnomes and the rest of the base races fit into the world am I allowed to include lore for noncore races like the aasimar, minotaurs, orc, centaurs and similar races that are from real-world mythology and how they tie in?
in addition, can I mention races like the genasi and tabaxi (who as far as I've found are exclusive to d&d) and how they tie into the world?
as a final note, I have excluded what I've found to be specifically from wizards that is super copyrighted such as the gith/mind flayers/beholders
originally it was meant to be a project to keep my mind off my poor mental health at the time but it really picked up with a lot of other players telling me they enjoy the content so I'm thinking ill eventually move to sell the module so im just trying to cover my bases so i can avoid legal issue
thanks for the input! I was likely going to change genasi for safety but ill look around some more