DwD Studios

Like the game? Have some ideas of your own? Well here’s the good news: we give you permission to help – and to profit yourself! Here’s how. You have three options:

Fan Generated Content

DwD Studios got it's start in the game industry through community sites and cooperative development. We are very eager to see what you create. We give you permission to make your fan content compatible with our rules and to use the logos presented below. This will help identify your fan-generated content belongs to our product line. We also provide the interior background graphic for your pages as well, to give your project that official look and feel. Fan content, if it includes copy & paste (or even re-mix) of the material from the core rulebook can't be sold for profit, but it can be distributed freely.

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In most ways, it’s as if we published it. You'll have to distribute it yourself in any way you wish and we can’t let you use our “BareBones Fantasy Role-playing Game” graphic title or our art (cover or interior), but we let you use everything else (See License). We only ask that you throw us a nod in your credits page, worded like this:

BareBones Fantasy^TM and Keranak Kingdoms^TM are trademarkes of DwD Studios. The game, setting, and likenesses are copyright 2012 DwD Studios. The material presented in this publication is fan-generated content and all trademarks and copyrighted material are used with permission under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

If, however, you'd like to profit from fan-generated content, that's great too (heck, Larry and Bill will probably buy copies)! You just can't copy & paste or re-mix what exists in the core rules.

For instance, if you want to write your own adventure or perhaps create your own setting, you can do so and sell it. But rather than copying and pasting material from the core books you'll have to simply refer to material in those books. We at DwD Studios are very open on this, so if you have a question just ask us specifically. We're not trying to make a million dollars; we're trying to give everyone a chance to share in the fun.

Licensed Content

If you would prefer to write for DwD Studios and help create official supplements and adventures for the game and its setting (or if you want to create your own game and use/modify our rules) then this is your option. In this case, you present your manuscript to us for review. We’ll work with you on it to help get it to be just right for the product line. We’ll even hire artists to get whatever art and cartography needs the product has. We'll take care of editing as well. When the product is released, it’ll have all the bells & whistles a DwD Studios product has – but you’ll be the product’s author! It will be sold through our distribution paths and bear our logos, trademarks, etc. And you’ll receive profit based on the type of product and the amount of art that must be commissioned. If you’re interested in seeing our licensed content guidelines, drop us an email on our contact page and we’ll get the ball rolling.

Licensing is a great option but it's also the most complicated. Depending on how much involvement/cost is required by DwD Studios, the amount of profit and the manner in which it's handled (lump sum, share of sales net, etc.) is negotiated on a case-by-case basis.

Decahedron Magazine

Writers cartographers and artists! Flex your creative muscles. Decahedron Magazine will feature content such as a Grimoire of new spells, Chronicles of Keranak, creatures, adventure hooks, GM Help, new player-races, new equipment, herb lore, cartography and more. SUBMIT CONTENT