If I can write this novel, I might submit it to Wizards for publishing as a D&D novel. If anyone has answers please let me know.
I have some questions pertaining for content usage but not sure if I would need legal permission from WotC. I'm interested in writing a novel based on a D&D world I'm creating and would like to use some content from the D&D universe such as the Dragonborn race, Swordmage class from Forgotten Realms and I'm wondering if I would need to get legal permission from Wizards to use said races and classes.
If I can write this novel, I might submit it to Wizards for publishing as a D&D novel. If anyone has answers please let me know.
Good luck in submitting your work. You'll need an impressive resume with lots of writing experience and credentials shown before WotC would look at your works.
Do you really need to use WotC's exact depiction of the Dragonborn race or their FR depiction of the Swordmage? If so, you may want to check up on them.
If not, then you could go with your own interpretation based on them, so long you don't use copyrighted text from their books.
Good luck in submitting your work. You'll need an impressive resume with lots of writing experience and credentials shown before WotC would look at your works.
Bla, in that case I'm best off writing it and not be concerned with WotC publishing it since this will be my first novel.
FR wasn't the first people to use the way of embuing elements to their weapons, Square-Enix has done it before with their Mystic Knight class so it's nothing totally original. Thanks for the info, I've got an idea on what to do with the Dragonborn race, while I won't call them that exactly they are going to be reptillian since the race would be an evolution of the Komodo dragon.
Bla, in that case I'm best off writing it and not be concerned with WotC publishing it since this will be my first novel.
Good idea, especially with your concept of Dragonborn. I bet WotC would prefer their novels written by someone more experience and set exactly in one of their settings.
The answer is actually fairly basic year one grade knowledge.
Yes you need permission.
But if you are indeed this green, I think you might as well just enjoy writing the story, call it training and not worry overly about it seeing paid for print.
Most of our famous authors can explain to you how their now famous early works were often sent back unwanted.
Boggles my imagination to consider that Frank Herbert's Dune was rejected 9 times on the grounds no one would want to read it.
At the risk of sounding mean, your question screams out to me that you haven't gained any formal writers training.
The answer is actually fairly basic year one grade knowledge.
Yes you need permission.
But if you are indeed this green, I think you might as well just enjoy writing the story, call it training and not worry overly about it seeing paid for print.
Most of our famous authors can explain to you how their now famous early works were often sent back unwanted.
Boggles my imagination to consider that Frank Herbert's Dune was rejected 9 times on the grounds no one would want to read it.
Why does one require formal training to be good at something? Sometimes the people who are best at something are so because they have not been "conditioned" to the conventions and norms (traditions) of a given area.
I have some questions pertaining for content usage but not sure if I would need legal permission from WotC. I'm interested in writing a novel based on a D&D world I'm creating and would like to use some content from the D&D universe such as the Dragonborn race, Swordmage class from Forgotten Realms and I'm wondering if I would need to get legal permission from Wizards to use said races and classes.
If I can write this novel, I might submit it to Wizards for publishing as a D&D novel. If anyone has answers please let me know.
you dont need their permission for any of that stuff.....
not anymore than you need Tolkien's permission to write about elves and dwarves....
all you need their approval for is if you want their logo on your book.
but if you dont care about the logo than go ahead and write about drow, swordmages, dragonborn, warlords, and whatever else you want to write about!!!!
they do not own the rights to any of the words....that is not possible.
For the most part its all legal. One thing that isn't, is Forgotten Realms. So you can't use names from there, or towns. (No Waterdeep, or worshippers of Torm the justice god). But I belive that Jusitorm, the Water god should be fine.
For the dragonborn, you could just use a half dragon, not call it such.
I'm not sure about Forgotten realms, but you should look up other books set in there and see what they have done.
-Joni
You could write fanfiction placed in the Realms. *Shrug*
-Joni
That's the thing. I'm not a big Realms fan so I"m not that familiar with the world itself. However I"ve been thinking of reading up on Realms and get into to via post-spell plague era with the new book. I would start with 3.5 but there's so many damn novels out there it would be daunting to understand everything.
they do not own the rights to any of the words....that is not possible.
True, but they DO OWN the right to THEIR OWN interpretation of the words, expressed in their copyrighted books.
Just stay away from that part.