Timeline for Can I use the example character names from the PHB for characters in a story I'm writing?
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| Dec 19, 2017 at 4:14 | comment | added | Luke | Sounds like Blizzard, George R.R. Martin, H. P. Lovecraft, Square Enix, and countless religions are all in violation of this license. Either that or a general license that encompasses lists of names you print in a book doesn't hold any weight. | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 21:20 | comment | added | Icyfire | @Erik that's true, and I doubt that Wizards could/would claim copyright on something like "Thorin," but those names are still proper names in the PHB and thus technically fall under the license. | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 21:18 | history | edited | Icyfire | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 18, 2017 at 21:12 | comment | added | Erik | I don't think this applies to the example names in the Race chapter. Especially since some of them are clearly copied from other and older non-WotC content. (And aren't "characters" either, just names.) | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 21:07 | history | answered | Icyfire | CC BY-SA 3.0 |