What can I include in 3rd-party content?

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What WotC 5e D&D content am I and am I not allowed to use in published 3rd-party content? Core books? Books like Xanathar's and Volo's? Unearthed Arcana? How do I avoid plagiarism, copyright infringement, etc?

Right now, I want to provide on my site/blog short campaign settings for dungeon masters to use as starting ideas for their games. If I create enough, I'm considering package them together in a PDF and sell them on something like DriveThruRPG.

This question is on topic. We handle advice for people looking to publish on matters of publishing law and copyright. This is an RPG publishing question, and is materially relevant to our domain. Many of us have to understand these things in order to engage in our day-to-day work, including those of us that do actually publish RPGs. We're also well equipped to understand the licensing specifically involved in D&D 5e. — doppelgreener, Apr 14 '18 at 16:18
I have voted to close this as a duplicate of a previously asked question. If you have not already downloaded the SRD/OGL Version 5.1 from the WoTC web site, then you need to do that before you go any further. Also read the FAQ, and then please revise your question if more things are unclear. — KorvinStarmast, Apr 15 '18 at 15:16

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Short story you can ONLY use info from the SRD.

Longer story here and with your neighborhood copyright attorney: http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-document-srd

answered Apr 15 '18 at 03:31

DerrickDM

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How do you explain the use of 5e material beyond the SRD that's allowed in DM's Guild submissions? – nitsua60 Apr 15 '18 at 04:00
@nitsua60 I think the question is a dupe, and marked it so. – KorvinStarmast Apr 15 '18 at 15:25
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Unless you choose not to accept that license, in which case there are other options. Check out the question now linked as a duplicate in the question above — its answers are informative! – SevenSidedDie Apr 15 '18 at 15:39

What can I include in 3rd-party content?

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