[DF] Holy water seems to have no purpose

[Stone Dog]

Originally Posted by Lonewulf

The Mind Flayer is a thin, lithe, small version of Cthulhu.

We aren't talking about inspiration or homages. We are talking about the idea of SJG outright stealing from something that has existing copyright protection. Even if TSR no longer exists, WotC still has the legal right to chase after anybody who tries using TSR content for commercial sale.

DF is already a homage taking inspiration from previous works and yes... that is perfectly fine. There are a LOT of fans who work on making the creatures that have been in D&D and that is pretty much fine too, but as soon as SJG starts trying to publish something for actual money that can be proven to use the AD&D guides as material?

That is when lawyers get involved and after that, no fan gets what they want.

EDIT- People I know involved in game publishing say that creative content needs to be about 80% different than a source in order to be considered different enough. I don't know how a court would decide what 80% means, but that is the number at least some professionals seem to be concerned with.