LICENSING

Since Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition is a rewritten copyrighted product we decided to release the SRD v3.0 (mechanics and lore text) under a CC-BY 4.0.

In order to support creators in making and publishing third party content, we have created a Liminal Horror Third Party License as an option for designers.

Liminal Horror Third Party License

We love community created content. We’ve created a Third Party License that allows anyone to make adventures, monsters, spells, content or mechanics for Liminal Horror and sell or publish for free without having to get approval from the Liminal Horror team. We want you to be able to write and publish your content, showcase that it is compatible with Liminal Horror and get it out there for others to use and play. That is why we have this license, and why we maintain the Liminal Horror Library to catalogue and share your creations!

RULES

If you follow these rules you are allowed to publish free or commercial material based upon or declaring compatibility with Liminal Horror without express permission from Goblin Archives LLC.

You may:

RESTRICTIONS

  • You cannot use AI generated Art or Text in a Liminal Horror compatible publication.
  • You cannot make Liminal Horror NTFs.
  • You cannot use or copy text from the Deluxe Edition that is copyrighted by Goblin Archives and Josh Domanski without a licensing contract.
  • You cannot publish work under the Third Party License content that would generally be deemed bigoted or hateful towards minorities, marginalized identities, and/or oppressed classes of any kind. You can use Third Party License for work that critiques bigotry, fascism, TERFs, billionaires, white supremacy, and other oppressive forces.

Without explicit permission, you may not:

  • Copy or re-use the art of Liminal Horror, except those illustrations identified as public domain
  • Use the Goblin Archives, Liminal Horror, Vaulted Pyramid, EmoSludge or Space Penguin logos.
  • State or imply that your work is an official Liminal Horror product, or that it has endorsement from the Liminal Horror Dev Team (Goblin Archives, Josh Domanski, Zach Hazard Vaupen).

The following text must be included somewhere visible within your publication, and on the website or storefront where you promote the product:

  • [Product name] is an independent production by [Author or Publisher] and is not affiliated with Goblin Archives LLC. It is published under the Liminal Horror Third Party License.

This copyright text must be legibly included somewhere on the product:

  • Liminal Horror is copyright by Goblin Archives LLC.

Goblin Archives LLC takes no responsibility for any legal claims against your product.

You are allowed and encouraged (but are not required to) use one of the “Compatible with Liminal Horror”/”For use with Liminal Horror” logos in your product, and on the website or storefront where you promote the product.
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Liminal Horror, CC-BY-SA 4.0, CC-BY 4.0 and the Third Party License

Liminal Horror started as a hack of Cairn. The original text was written using Cairn’s original license Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International — CC BY-SA 4.0.
This means that you can copy and share the text as long as you properly attribute the sections and give those portions the same license. It also means that the version of Liminal Horror you use matters in terms of licensing.
Remember that for the SRDs:

What does this mean in practice?

  • You can use any of the text, as is, within Liminal Horror Core Rules & SRD as long as those parts are attributed and licensed in the appropriate ways.
  • Directly using text from Liminal Horror Legacy Edition and Liminal Horror Investigators must include those portions under CC-BY-SA-4.0.
  • Using SRD v.3.0 as your reference text will mean you don’t have to worry about anything other than attribution of the original text.
  • It also means you can write your own adventure, reference rules and mechanics in your own way, and publish it using the Third Party License above and copyright your portions of the text (if you want to). Meaning you don’t need to worry about complicated licensing structures.

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Liminal Horror is developed by Gobin Archives, Josh Domanski, and Zach Hazard Vaupen