Modding for BG3 illegal?

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Modders have not purchased a license from Wizards of the Coast. It is highly likely that making mods is ILLEGAL and people could go to prison for making new content that is based on DND. This is probably also the reason why Larian isn't ever releasing a mod editor.. the fan creators would simply all go to prison when they release unlicensed campaigns.

[LordOfTheBread]

Perfectly legal and acknowledged by devs:

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3

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Originally posted by LordOfTheBread:

Perfectly legal and acknowledged by devs:

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3

nexusmods is an unaffiliated website, they are not related to the devs and even if the Larian devs were to say that it's okay then that still doesn't mean that it's truly okay. Only a high powered legal department could answer this or the Larian lawyers that have read the WOTC contract.

[IcyDec]

Has anyone gotten arrested for making Disney character mods for GMod

[LordOfTheBread]

Originally posted by ftw01:

Originally posted by LordOfTheBread:

Perfectly legal and acknowledged by devs:

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3

nexusmods is an unaffiliated website, they are not related to the devs and even if the Larian devs were to say that it's okay then that still doesn't mean that it's truly okay. Only a high powered legal department could answer this or the Larian lawyers that have read the WOTC contract.

Larian will probably open Steanm Workshop when they release the definitive edition. Until then you can use Nexus and it is legal.

[Altimely]

Originally posted by ftw01:

Modders have not purchased a license from Wizards of the Coast. It is highly likely that making mods is ILLEGAL and people could go to prison for making new content that is based on DND. This is probably also the reason why Larian isn't ever releasing a mod editor.. the fan creators would simply all go to prison when they release unlicensed campaigns.

Explains the hundreds of thousands of lawsuits made by companies against modders.

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Originally posted by LordOfTheBread:

Originally posted by ftw01:

nexusmods is an unaffiliated website, they are not related to the devs and even if the Larian devs were to say that it's okay then that still doesn't mean that it's truly okay. Only a high powered legal department could answer this or the Larian lawyers that have read the WOTC contract.

Larian will probably open Steanm Workshop when they release the definitive edition. Until then you can use Nexus and it is legal.

that is your personal opinion and you could be dragging a lot of people into prison by saying this and then someone believes you and makes a mod

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Its not how it works, first this game is made by Larian so Wizards of the Coast has nothing to say about what modding is done for this game, second homebrew has been a thing since time forever, the notion WotC can have anyone that effectively make something homebrew (which a mod would be) for their games is ridiculous.

Licensing is for one thing and one thing only 'money' you can do anything you want so long as it doesn't affect the bottomline of the company with the license, making mods for this game cannot in any shapes or forms conceivably affect WotC profits.

Its not like modders sold their mods, even if it was the case only mods copying stuff out of WotC books could be sued on, which isn't the case for most mods, as I said alot of it is homebrew, or stuff effectively taken from other games.

Finally the reason Larian likely hasn't made a modding tool available is likely more about their own profit, look let's be real, mods can do equal or better than what those companies release as DLC for their games, by not encouraging modding they stifle the flow of mods that might compete with their future DLCs, look at Solasta for example, their was a metric ton of mods released ahead of their DLCs and it likely affected negatively their sales because frankly those DLCs weren't always all that great, selling a DLC with new classes for example is bothersome when modders already made those classes available with fairly descent quality.

[Altimely]

Originally posted by ftw01:

Originally posted by LordOfTheBread:

Larian will probably open Steanm Workshop when they release the definitive edition. Until then you can use Nexus and it is legal.

that is your personal opinion and you could be dragging a lot of people into prison by saying this and then someone believes you and makes a mod

It's true. There's dozens of people in prison right now because they uploaded mods to both Nexus and the anti-woke mod sites.

[LordOfTheBread]

Originally posted by ftw01:

Originally posted by LordOfTheBread:

Larian will probably open Steanm Workshop when they release the definitive edition. Until then you can use Nexus and it is legal.

that is your personal opinion and you could be dragging a lot of people into prison by saying this and then someone believes you and makes a mod

No one ever went in prison for using or making a mod, good luck proving me wrong.

[LordOfTheBread]

Originally posted by Altimely:

Originally posted by ftw01:

that is your personal opinion and you could be dragging a lot of people into prison by saying this and then someone believes you and makes a mod

It's true. There's dozens of people in prison right now because they uploaded mods to both Nexus and the anti-woke mod sites.

isn't true.

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Originally posted by Altimely:

Originally posted by ftw01:

that is your personal opinion and you could be dragging a lot of people into prison by saying this and then someone believes you and makes a mod

It's true. There's dozens of people in prison right now because they uploaded mods to both Nexus and the anti-woke mod sites.

when someone goes to prison because of your false advice, how will you help them? You'll do nothing, correct? Most games are not based on a license, that's why this was never an issue before. E.g I believe it would be similar with a Harry Potter game mod that ends up getting money somehow, via donations, patreon or otherwise. Do you really think that the Harry Potter license holders will just sit idly by while there are news stories about mod creators getting rich off of their intellectual property? Think.

[Altimely]

Originally posted by LordOfTheBread:

Originally posted by Altimely:

It's true. There's dozens of people in prison right now because they uploaded mods to both Nexus and the anti-woke mod sites.

isn't true.

Nah man. There's like. Dozens...or even..hundreds of people in prison. Just like how there's hundreds of modders in prison from all the other games they've made mods for...I mean Skyrim was an entire war of lawsuits.

I'm being facetious. idk what OP is smoking

[psychotron666]

Solasta has mods and they use dnd 5e as well so it's fine as long as the mods aren't monetized

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Originally posted by Altimely:

Originally posted by LordOfTheBread:

isn't true.

Nah man. There's like. Dozens...or even..hundreds of people in prison. Just like how there's hundreds of modders in prison from all the other games they've made mods for...I mean Skyrim was an entire war of lawsuits.

I'm being facetious. idk what OP is smoking

again: Totally different situation with Skyrim because they use their own IP and they can decide whether to allow fans to profit from fan content or not.
If someone were to write a Harry Potter based fan novel, they would get sued too. I believe that the same will happen to BG3 fan content aka mods.

[❤N'wahCliffracer❤]

Jfc, these posts get funnier by the week. People have been modding for decades. Also ♥♥♥♥ WotC. It's no different than people writing fanfiction. No one is going to prison. Calm down.