Hey. I have come up with a system that I cannot disclose, and I am writing my T&C's ect. I was wondering if you could help me? As an observation, they are deliberately obfuscating legal documentation e.g. "
Don’t use Wizards’ IP in other games." by including in the same sentence "your own or other people’s games or game components (
e.g., rule books, tokens, figures), regardless of whether it is distributed for free".
I am of the understanding that physical products built on top of gaming mechanics in similar nature or likeness is allowed. "Once a game has been made public,
nothing in the copyright law prevents others from developing another game based on similar principles -
The Board Game Designers Guide to US Intellectual Property Law –... "
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Therefore WotC are in fact abusing copywriting claims by explicitly implying something which is not true. Solely to discourage the creation of new or like systems e.g. fictional in nature which fall outside a particular character's attribute(s) e,g, story and related characters or in this instance (worlds). In essence, they are lumping false pretenses into a non-legally binding document to deliberately obfuscate others from building physical products which can be used including but not limited to dungeons and dragons.
