Greetings!
Is anyone familiar w/ RPG gaming copyright laws (legal technical terms are very confusing to me)?
Very curious if I can call it a rule set of my own, legally speaking.
After playing for many many years using the same fantasy game system (not D&D in case you are wondering) and collecting a stack of house rules on top of house rules as more and more people I played with became GM's themselves, I ran into another fan's version of the same game system but cosmically condensed, altered, and simplified. I was immediately inspired to attempt the same; this was about 5-6 years ago.
After a wild roller coaster of marriage, divorce, a taste of homelessness, and covid induced isolation I recently dusted off and re-edited my version of said rule set; taking into account the original but replacing around 90-95% of it w/ my collection of house rules (50-55%), that fan's condensed rule set ideas (10%), and custom made on the spot ideas (30%). Thus far I have actually only been able to play test about a good 70% of it a few years back with a group of 4 people.
P.S. I hope am posting this in the correct section of the forums (its been a while since I last posted something).