Write and sell your own D&D content as Wizards announces DM’s Guild

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**reds8n**

http://tencopper.com/article/2016/01/dnd-5e-dms-guild-homebrew-content/

Wizards of the Coast are offering their full support to homebrew creators of Dungeons & Dragons 5E content today with a new initiative called the Dungeon Master’s Guild, created in partnership with DriveThruRPG.

The initiative is part storefront and part resource hub, with players able to download and use official D&D 5E templates and content to create their own adventures, classes and more, before selling it on the official storefront.

Wizards of the Coast take 50% of all profits and are offering creators “a select body of the Wizards of the Coast IP”, including Forgotten Realms-specific content. You can take a look at the sort of artwork and templates they’re offering here.

“While all types of content are welcome in the Dungeon Masters Guild, there are certain types of content we think are more in demand by players, and we will therefore tend to promote it more prominently on the DMsGuild marketplace,” writes Wizards.

“Primarily, we’d like to see short adventures that can be run in a single session, especially ones that can complement larger campaigns already published by Wizards (e.g., Rage of Demons). Also in demand are fifth edition conversions of monsters absent from the fifth edition Monster Manual and new backgrounds for players to use with their characters. Again, we’d like to emphasize content that would be useful for other D&D players looking to expand on existing official storylines, such as a collection of demons useful for Rage of Demons. ”

“At the end of the day, though, the best content for you to write is the content you’re inspired to create. The Realms is a big place. We look forward to seeing what you create for it!”

Click here to find out more and to sign up.

links :

resources : http://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?filters=0_0_45476_0_0&site=dmg

sign up info : http://www.dmsguild.com/whatisdmsguild.php

good luck people !

**Sinful Hero**

WotC takes 50%? That pretty normal, low, or high?

**Ratius**

Thats proper community engagement right there (albeit obviously profit driven

).
Pretty cool!

**Chongara**

I might have to look into this. I do a fair amount of home brewing, but not really adventures or things specifically tied to FR.

**warboss**

Sinful Hero wrote:
WotC takes 50%? That pretty normal, low, or high?

During the d20 days of 3/3.5, you could use the core three books that largely made up the SRD (without art iirc though... just the text) without paying WOTC anything. You just needed to include the d20 license page in your product and follow the very loose rules listed there. I can't comment on how much more 5e content you can use but if there is a sizeable increase in it (art, rules, books, etc) then it's not unreasonable to have to share the profits. The devil is in the details though.

**hungryp**

The d20 system then became the Open Gaming License, which they still have for 5E too, but I believe most of that relies on people getting their own publishing done, as well as all of the other creative (writing, art, etc) work. Wizards has provided art, map packs, and templates so far. Seems to me like a way for them to put to use all the hopefuls from the Dungeon and Dragon magazines' reject piles

Not that that's all bad.