Want to produce official FG products, adventures, rulesets?

[Galach]

So, here's my understanding.

First, distributing FG modules outside of the FG store is permissible as far as licensing with SmiteWorks go. This does not mean you can include IP owned by anyone, but does mean you can distribute all original content in FG format however and where-ever you want. (AAW is one example.)

Within the license of the DMsG, you can publish your module there (as a zip). About the only relevant WotC stuff you can not include is artwork. That means that the FG tokens included with the MM in FG can not be included (as I understand it). So, you could include a 5E FG module using the monsters etc, just not the tokens. Or you could include links to the MM monsters and state that the host (DM) must have the MM in order to use your module.

I too have been waiting for Doug to get an agreement that would allow us to distribute through the FG store under a license similar to the DMsG.

My general understanding is the same as yours, but I wish to be sure, so I do not end making a mistake.

About the tokens, I am planning to create a generic set, very simple because I am not an artist, probably just a coin-like shape with symbols or names written to include on my modules.

I would be very interest in build a whole, free collection of tokens and small maps, with nice art, to share with FG content creators, so they could include the tokens in their products too - something like a “Fantasy Grounds Content Creator Art Database” – in short, FG-CCA Database, much like what CSUAC was for Dundjinni (lol).

People would be free to use this database freely to create FG content only, and commercial products would need to be sold only on FG Store, so we would be able to support further the development of Fantasy Grounds.

However, despite being able to do some things on Photoshop, I will not be able to draw the creature portraits to be included there so, for now, just generic coin-like images will need to suffice.

[Nickademus]

First, distributing FG modules outside of the FG store is permissible as far as licensing with SmiteWorks go. This does not mean you can include IP owned by anyone, but does mean you can distribute all original content in FG format however and where-ever you want. (AAW is one example.)

Distributing is different from selling. AAW has an agreement directly with SW. A random person that hasn't entered into an agreement 'may' not be allowed to profit off of FG-formatted files. Or they may; depends on what SW says. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that free distribution is acceptable by selling isn't.

About the only relevant WotC stuff you can not include is artwork. That means that the FG tokens included with the MM in FG can not be included (as I understand it).

The DMsG provides stock art that could be used. I'm not sure how robust the selection is or if you are allowed to crop the images (to make tokens). But there is a chance of this working out. And if not, people can make generic royalty-free stock art (like the PF paper minis art; simple but effective) for others to use in DMsG products. I don't remember if you can sell stock art directly on the DMsG, but you can just sell it campaign-agnostic on the sister site DriveThruRPG. Something for our FG artist to do to make some extra money and fill the gap.

I too have been waiting for Doug to get an agreement that would allow us to distribute through the FG store under a license similar to the DMsG.

This most likely won't happen. WotC set up the DMsG to be the only place normal people can sell 5e material. They use it to search for talent and writers for official WotC stuff. If they let SW allow normal people to produce 5e material it probably wouldn't allow non-SRD material and would require WotC to monitor two sites for writers. One of the major reasons WotC uses OneBookShelf (the company that hosts the DMsG) is because of the rating system. FG's Store doesn't have that and I doubt SW wants to restructure the store for feedback.

[ddavison]

Nickademus is correct. We have an agreement in place with AAW and with a few other people that allow them to sell and distribute content. We provide them reports and royalties for stuff that sells through our storefront and they provide us payment for stuff that sells through their outlets. They are able to use our trademarks and logos on their products as part of this agreement.

[ddavison]

Regarding DM's Guild... please stay tuned. I hope to have something finalized on this very, very soon.

[LordEntrails]

Nickademus is correct. We have an agreement in place with AAW and with a few other people that allow them to sell and distribute content. We provide them reports and royalties for stuff that sells through our storefront and they provide us payment for stuff that sells through their outlets. They are able to use our trademarks and logos on their products as part of this agreement.

Without using the SW or FG trademarks and logos, can modules created for FG be distriuted through other channels without approval from SmiteWorks?

p.s. And, I'm still holding my breath for the other announcement !

[ddavison]

As long as it is your own unique creation and you aren't using our trademarks or logos, then you can distribute them. When people ask us for permission to use our name and logos, we often grant it as well.

[Nickademus]

So this means that a .mod file with the xml formatted in a way that FG could use is completely in the open? It's only the use of the name 'Fantasy Grounds' on the product that is not allowed?

[Varsuuk]

Crossing fingers Doug on your announcement

[Mortar]

List of Publishers (Regularly updated)
These publishers have agreed to allow officially licensed materials according to the guidelines posted above. OGL content or works falling under another agreement provided by a publisher are excluded from the requirements listed above, but are still welcome.

PM me or post here to express interest in performing a conversion and I will indicate it on the list below.. The PDFs for these can be found on RPGNow or DriveThruRPG. For developers with a proven track record, the PDF will be supplied by SmiteWorks, on permission from the publisher.

Pinnacle Entertainment Group

• Savage Worlds Adventure Modules
• Savage Worlds Token Packs
• Deadlands Reloaded Adventure Modules
• Slipstream Modules and Accessories
• Deadlands Noir Adventures
• Pretty much anything we don't already have listed

Chaosium, Inc.

• Basic Roleplaying Extensions and Library Modules for Nephilim
• Basic Roleplaying Libary and Adventure Modules (Any)
• Superworld Extension and Library module
• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Ages
• Call of Cthulhu: No Man's Land
• Call of Cthulhu: Curse of the Chthonians
• Call of Cthulhu: Ye Booke of Monstres II
• Call of Cthulhu: In the Shadows
• Call of Cthulhu: Blood Brothers II
• Call of Cthulhu: A Resection of Time
• Call of Cthulhu: The Great Old Ones
• Call of Cthulhu: Arkham
• Call of Cthulhu: Blood Brothers
• Call of Cthulhu: Secrets of Japan - 2392
• Call of Cthulhu: Dunwich: Return to the Forgotten Village
• Call of Cthulhu: Ye Booke of Monsters
• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Designs
• Call of Cthulhu: The Thing at the Threshold
• Call of Cthulhu: Arkham Sanitarium
• Call of Cthulhu: Secrets of San Francisco (in progress by Colin Richardson)
• Call of Cthulhu: Fearful Passages
• Call of Cthulhu: Tales of the Miskatonic Valley (in progress by sdompy)
• Call of Cthulhu: Terror Australis
• Call of Cthulhu: The Bermuda Triangle
• Call of Cthulhu: Strange Aeons
• Call of Cthulhu: Spawn of Azathoth (in progress)
• Call of Cthulhu: Spawn of Azathoth (in progress by Arnuphis)
• Call of Cthulhu: Last Rites
• Call of Cthulhu Token Packs

Troll Lord Games

• Castles & Crusades: I2 Under Dark & Mistry Ground
• Castles & Crusades: I3 Dogs of War: Felsentheim
• Castles & Crusades: DB3 Deeper Darkness
• Castles & Crusades: DB5 The Conquered East
• Castles & Crusades: U1 Verdant Rage
• Castles & Crusades: Fingers of the Forsaken Lands
• Castles & Crusades: Dragons of Aihrde Miasmal Wyrms
• Castles & Crusades: Monsters of Airhde II
• Castles & Crusades: Monsters of Airhde III
• Castles & Crusades: Monsters of Airhde IV
• Anything not already listed

Malhavoc Press

• The Book of Eldritch Might
• The Night of Dissolution
• Ptolus: Monte Cook's City by the Spire
• Transcendence
• Ruins of Intrigue
• Grimoire II
• Mystic Secrets
• Requiem for a God
• Secrets of the Delver's Guild
• Beyond Countless Doorways
• Dark Tidings
• The Book of Experimental Might
• The Book of Iron Might
• The Complete Book of Eldritch Might
• The Book of Hallowed Might
• The Book of Eldritch Might II: Songs and Souls of Power
• Book of Experimental Might II: Bloody, Bold, and Resolute
• Book of Hallowed Might II
• Book of Eldritch Might III

D20 Modern

• Original Adventures (OGL)
• Original Tokens Packs
• Original Maps Packs
• Original Portrait Packs

D20

• Original Adventures (OGL)
• Original Tokens Packs
• Original Maps Packs
• Original Portrait Packs

Metamorphosis Alpha

• Ruleset and Core Rulebook Library

Triple Ace Games
www.tripleacegames.com

• Hellfrost Adventure 04: Pirates of the Crystalflow
• Hellfrost Adventure 05: The Siege of Watchgap Fort
• Hellfrost Adventure 06: The Lost City of Paraxus
• Hellfrost Adventure 07 - Descent Into Madness
• Hellfrost Adventure 08 - The Heart of Winter
• Hellfrost Adventure 09 - Against the Elements
• Hellfrost Adventure 10 - Web of Deceit
• Daring Tales of the Space Lanes #3
• Daring Tales of the Space Lanes #4
• Daring Tales of the Sprawl
• Daring Tales of Adventure
• Sundered Skies Adventures
• Any other product not listed and not on the Store already

Mongoose Publishing (Contracting for individual product lines as they arive)
www.mongoosepublishing.com

• RuneQuest -- extension to the BRP ruleset (in progress by phantomwhale)
• Battlefield Evolution
• Conan
• Traveller (in progress by Colin Richardson)
• 2000 AD
• Elric of Melnibone
• Paranoia
• Hawkmoon
• Lone Wolf
• Flaming Cobra
• Pax Britannica
• Sniper Elite
• The Afterblight Chronicles
• Tomes of the Dead
• Twilight of Kerberos
• Victory at Sea
• Signs & Portents
• Judge Dredd
• Open Gaming License Materials published under Mongoose

Mindstorm Labs
www.mindstormlabs.com/

• Alpha Omega: Ruleset (in progress by Drahkar)
• Alpha Omega: The Encountered
• Alpha Omega: Milk Run - Adventure

Alderac Entertainment Group - AEG
https://www.alderac.com

• Legend of the Five Rings (upcoming 4th edition)
• 7th Sea (inquire for details)
• The World's Largest Dungeon

Scrying Eye Games
https://www.scryingeye.com/

• Map Packs:
• Art Packs
• Figure Packs

Pelgrane Press Ltd

• GUMSHOE Ruleset and follow-up modules
• Trail of Cthulhu Ruleset and follow-up modules (Scott Case working on it... in review)
• Esoterrorists
• Mutant City Blues
• Fear Itself

Evil Hat

• FATE Core + modules
• FATE Accelerated + modules

Expeditious Retreat Press

• One on One Adventures 11+
• Pathfinder compatible adventures

Ruleset Updates

• Iron Heroes
• D20 Modern
• Arcana Evolved

Rite Publishing

• Book of Monster Templates (using template extension from Green Ronin's Advanced Bestiary)
• Not So Simple Monster Templates (using template extension from Green Ronin's Advanced Bestiary)

Green Ronin

• Mutants & Masterminds supplements
• True20 ruleset and supplements
• Blue Rose
• Freeport (Mgrancey working on it - 9/8/2014)
• 3rd Era
• Maps and Map Books not branded as DC or Song of Ice and Fire

Palladium

• Inquire for details

See this thread for additional details on updating existing rulesets:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13678

Doug, Is it possible to get this post updated?

[Talyn]

+1 that request