@China:
Lol, like anyone on this planet has the balls to piss off China. China just does not care and will do what it want’s.
@OP:
Perhaps you can just put a new spin on the original game and call it ‘WTF, there are strange [blocks] falling from the sky!’
Possibly replace the word [blocks] with whatever design you have.
i’ve always kind of wanted to make a rogue-like using d&d dice rolls and character sheets. would that be possible? running from the 3.5 rules? just curious for future reference, it seems cooler then making monsters do like 5 damage or something. Everything will kind of be “pre-balanced” that way.
For using D&D 3.5 material read over the general license they have for the D20 system. You probably know about other games systems that are based on the D20 system. Your game would fall in that area, but read over the license. Some material is propriatary to D&D such as Tenser and other characters.
The dice styles are not owned by D&D (Wizards of the Coast), so you can use them in your game freely.
Disney isn’t the only company that defense it’s characters. Warner Brothers does with the Looney Toon characters. Years ago, someone submited characters to Dragon Magazine using the Looney Toons. The writer was sued for it.
Thx, that wouldn’t really be a problem then. i don’t have any interest in the content. Just the game mechanics.
Maybe i’ll look up how to make a d20 game, they might idiot proof it for me. I know i should just read the legal documentation, but i have trouble finding this stuff and it all looks like gibberish to me. Besides the money i have a hard time seeing why anyone wants to go into the legal profession.
Very interesting. I guess I will just name it differently and put it on my website. As soon as I get warning, I will make sure I remove it. Thank you guys for comments.
Just one more thing… How would they give you the warning? I’m guessing they will see the name/info registered with the website hosting and email? Or might they send me a letter through mail?
http://brainz.org/dmca-takedown-101/
Seems if you can’t be contacted, they will serve the take down notice to the company providing your hosting. If they want you to take it down, it is best to take it down if you are infringing. If your host takes no action and you leave it up, I assume they have gotten past the DCMA and you can be sued.
Either via the hosting service if you use one, or your IP->Provider.
You might also want to check out your local laws. f.i. in Germany you HAVE to have such information (Impressum) on your pages or else you can get sued for that alone.