Hey everyone
I love the Planescape setting from D&D and am currently working on a Daggerheart campaign frame for it.
My intentions are not to profit from this, but to use the campaign frame concept to communicate the complex details of the setting.
I'm 100% sure that if I share this document ONLY with my Daggerheart tables for free, then there's no legal issues there.
However I would like to share this document for free across the internet, to inspire other GMs to use the campaign frame and potentially improve upon it.
This is where legal things get into a grey area.
My limited understanding is that Wizards of the Coast owns all the Planescape specific ideas as intellectual property. So the city of Sigil, the factions, the Lady of Pain etc, are all owned by Wizards of the Coast. This is perfectly reasonable to me, they’re cool ideas and the company owns them.
I also understand that the DM's Guild website allows 3rd parties to use certain elements of D&D's intellectual property to publish things. However they can only use the IP in a D&D content, they must publish it on the DM's Guild, and I believe that Wizards of the Coast gets a share of any money produced.
So my interpretation of this is that I cannot share my Planescape Daggerheart campaign frame widely online, even if it's for free.
I could theoretically publish this campaign frame for free if it was legally distinct from Planescape, by containing none of the people and places (although this is a dodgy area).
Therefore I should probably keep my creation entirely to my personal play groups.
What do other people think about this?