I was hoping to post some homebrew races that I'd been working on, but after reviewing the rules and guidelines, I wanted to double check the intent of some parts. To cut to the chase, most of my homebrew is 5e player versions of old monster races, and the writeups I've done for them seem like they could be in violation of three rules:
Non-SRD or Basic Rules content that is the intellectual property of Wizards of the Coast (such as mind flayers, beholders, or Mordenkainen).
Quoted text from a Wizards of the Coast paid publication.
Images from Wizards of the Coast publications. This includes photographs, scans, PDFs etc.
Since the site has homebrew race versions of things like yuan-ti and mind flayers, though, I assume that I'm interpreting the first rule in a much more restrictive fashion than is meant. Am I doing the same with the other two quoted rules, or is using any part of a D&D publication fully impermissible?
Apologies if there would have been a better place to ask questions about the site like this, but this forum looked like it was the most suitable. Thank you!
if you would like to publish homebrew races that are based on content from previous editions of D&D, that's absolutely ok!
There is a caveat though - if that race is later officially released, we'll need to unpublish the homebrew versions. If that happens, you're still welcome to use your homebrew versions yourself and share them within any campaigns you are part of, but they can't be part of public homebrew. Any characters that are using the published homebrew will also be able to continue to use it.
if you would like to publish homebrew races that are based on content from previous editions of D&D, that's absolutely ok!
There is a caveat though - if that race is later officially released, we'll need to unpublish the homebrew versions. If that happens, you're still welcome to use your homebrew versions yourself and share them within any campaigns you are part of, but they can't be part of public homebrew. Any characters that are using the published homebrew will also be able to continue to use it.
Ah, perfect, that makes absolute sense. Thank you for the explanation!
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I was hoping to post some homebrew races that I'd been working on, but after reviewing the rules and guidelines, I wanted to double check the intent of some parts. To cut to the chase, most of my homebrew is 5e player versions of old monster races, and the writeups I've done for them seem like they could be in violation of three rules:
Since the site has homebrew race versions of things like yuan-ti and mind flayers, though, I assume that I'm interpreting the first rule in a much more restrictive fashion than is meant. Am I doing the same with the other two quoted rules, or is using any part of a D&D publication fully impermissible?
Apologies if there would have been a better place to ask questions about the site like this, but this forum looked like it was the most suitable. Thank you!
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D&D Beyond FoundersHi there,
if you would like to publish homebrew races that are based on content from previous editions of D&D, that's absolutely ok!
There is a caveat though - if that race is later officially released, we'll need to unpublish the homebrew versions. If that happens, you're still welcome to use your homebrew versions yourself and share them within any campaigns you are part of, but they can't be part of public homebrew. Any characters that are using the published homebrew will also be able to continue to use it.
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Ah, perfect, that makes absolute sense. Thank you for the explanation!