Say I wanted to create (and sell) an original design of the D&D 5e Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, and some original cartography of Forgotten Realms locations. This would mostly be a reprint but original form and artwork. I understand that OGL doesn't cover this because the published books are under standard copyright law; [Source][1] and [Source - Section 18-g][2]

If this is correct on this, based on [this][3], I need to submit a request to them and get permission before producing anything.

Does this sound right? Am I missing something that makes this ok via OGL? Has anyone ever done this that knows the process which should be followed?

**EDIT**

Thanks for the answers everyone! I mentioned 5e here as the ideal case. But, really this is more a collectable aimed at long time fans and DMs, so 3e works just as well. It appears it may be more realistic for me to do this with the [3.5e SRD][4] and just as interesting. I will post a similar question and link it here to discuss that.


  [1]: http://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/45024/is-there-a-ogl-or-gsl-license-for-dd-5e
  [2]: https://company.wizards.com/policies/web/tou
  [3]: http://wizards.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/88
  [4]: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/srd35