Content & IP Position
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Rolls Pending is a companion app for tabletop roleplaying games. This page sets out how we treat game rules, homebrew, and other people's intellectual property — what we sell, what we don't, what you can share, and how rights holders can reach us.
1. The principle: platform, not rules
Rolls Pending sells functionality, never rules content. We charge for our software — character builders, dice automation, campaign tools, live sessions — and never for access to any game's rules text. Game rules belong to their publishers. You need the relevant game's rules, from its publisher, to play; Rolls Pending is the tool you bring to the table alongside them.
Where the app supports a game system, that support is either built on freely licensed material, used with the rights holder's permission, or limited to mechanical structure that reproduces no protected text. Where we haven't yet secured permission for a system's content, the app deliberately ships the structure without the content — you'll see clearly labelled placeholders rather than reproduced text. That's not a bug; it's the boundary.
2. Your homebrew is yours
Everything you create in Rolls Pending — characters, campaigns, homebrew abilities, feats, classes, NPCs, gear — belongs to you. We claim no ownership. When you publish homebrew to the Commons you grant us only the licence needed to display it and deliver copies to users who install it (see the Terms of Service, Sections 5–6).
3. The honor system — and its limits
The Commons runs on an honor system: when you publish, you confirm the work is your own or that you have the right to share it. We don't pre-screen submissions. This is a deliberate choice — the same one made by every major homebrew community — and it comes with a real obligation on us: when someone tells us the honor system has been violated, we act.
What you may not publish:
- Published game rules text — rulebook text, stat blocks transcribed from books, paid or licensed content, setting material. This is the clearest line and the app has a report reason dedicated to it ("reproduces published rules text").
- Anyone else's copyrighted or trademarked material without permission.
- Content you've licensed from someone else on terms that don't allow redistribution.
What's fine: your own original homebrew, content in the style of a system, mechanics you designed (game *mechanics* as such are not protected — reproduced *text* is), and material whose licence genuinely permits sharing.
4. Reporting infringement (takedown requests)
If you believe content on Rolls Pending infringes your rights:
- Users: use the in-app Report option on the listing (reason: reproduces published rules text, or the closest match).
- Rights holders and their agents: email support@rollspending.com with (1) the content and where it appears, (2) the work you hold rights in, (3) your relationship to the rights holder, and (4) a way to reach you.
Every report is reviewed by a human. If the claim checks out, we remove the public listing promptly and notify the publisher of the removal with the reason. Repeat infringers lose access to publishing, and serious cases lose their accounts (see the Community Guidelines' consequences ladder). If we believe a report is mistaken, we'll say so and explain why.
5. What a takedown does — and doesn't — reach
Commons sharing uses a fork model: installing published homebrew creates a copy owned by the installer, in their own library, possibly woven into campaigns with real play history.
When content is taken down:
- the public listing is removed — no new user can find or install it;
- the creator's ability to republish it is gone;
- copies already installed by other users remain in their libraries.
We stop the distribution; we don't reach into people's ongoing games to delete material they installed in good faith. This mirrors how the physical world works — a recalled book isn't burned out of readers' homes — and it's how our data model is deliberately built.
Exceptional removals. In rare cases we may need to go further than delisting:
- where content is unlawful (not merely claimed to infringe) — for example child-safety material;
- where a court order or legal obligation requires removal everywhere, not just from the public listing; or
- where content poses a genuine safety or security risk to users.
In those cases we may remove or disable installed copies as well. Where we do, we'll tell affected users what was removed and why, to the extent the law allows. This is a narrow exception and we intend to use it that way: an ordinary copyright takedown — including a takedown of a campaign pack — delists the content and stops new installs; it does not reach into your library or your campaigns.
6. What Rolls Pending itself reproduces
For transparency, and for the rights holders we work with:
- The app reproduces game-system content only where it is freely licensed, used with permission, or platform-seeded from free, non-paywalled material — and any such content is always free to all users. It is never sold and never placed behind a paid tier.
- Where a system's content requires a licence we don't yet hold, the app ships clearly-labelled stubs ("this exists in the system; full content requires a licence") rather than the content.
- Paid tiers gate capacity and convenience (slots, caps, cross-campaign tools, cosmetics) — never rules content, and never access to community-shared material. Browsing and installing from the Commons is free for everyone, deliberately: we do not charge for access to user-shared content.
7. Trademarks and named systems
Game system names mentioned in Rolls Pending are the trademarks of their respective owners. Support for a system in the app does not imply the publisher's endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation unless we state it explicitly. "Rolls Pending" and the Rolls Pending mark are ours; please don't use them in ways that suggest affiliation.
8. Contact
Rights inquiries, licensing conversations, and takedown requests: support@rollspending.com
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