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What "unofficial" means here

Every tool on this site is a fan work about a game someone else owns. That carries obligations, and we would rather spell them out than hide behind a disclaimer in the footer.

What we do not ship

No publisher artwork, logos or photographs, in any tool, as default art or otherwise. Where a tool needs a picture to make a card look finished, we draw our own or use icons under a Creative Commons licence with credit. If you put an official image on your own card, that is your choice on your own device; the tool does not fetch it and the image never leaves your browser.

No rulebook text. Skill descriptions, special rules and reference cards are summaries in our own words, and they say so. They are meant to remind you of a rule at the table, and the rulebook always wins when they differ. The one exception is The Loot Table, where the Daggerheart System Reference Document is published under a licence that allows verbatim use, and we follow that licence to the letter, including the required notices.

No scraping of publisher sites. Roster and datasheet data comes from community-maintained transcriptions that have existed for years, and we cross-check numbers between two or more of them. Where they disagree, the entry is flagged in the tool rather than silently picked.

What we do

We use game names and terms to say what each tool is for, which is what trademarks are for. We describe each tool as unofficial, and we mean it: none of the publishers has endorsed, reviewed or heard of us. The cards you make are for your own use at your own table.

If you hold rights to something

If you are a publisher, or represent one, and something here concerns you, say so through the Ko-fi page and it will be dealt with promptly. We would rather remove a thing than argue about it.

If you spot a wrong number

The same route works. Tell us the game, the entry and the printed source, and the fix will be in the next build with the source noted in the data file. The data files are commented with where every number came from, so a correction is a one-line change.