@silverwizard If you think I'm saying otherwise I've not expressed myself clearly.
Nobody owns the concept of rolling dice, and most of the premises of High Fantasy are so old that they're public domain where they aren't just straight folklore. That's why the old 3.5 SRD included basically the entire game except for anything where a specific character or a truly novel creature (like the Illithids) was mentioned.
So we can't use Tanis Half-elven specifically without giving them a cut. wgaf