Contributing

Summary

Deck of Adventures Admin welcome input from the community, whether to help us make the wording of rules more precise or to expand upon the options provided. Admin ask that you review the licenses applicable to any material submitted and respect the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA nature of this community. When contributing, please provide moderators with your preferred name, pronouns, and a URL to link to your other work. You can make a contribution by opening a GitHub issue. For more major contributions, see our design document for design principles, and community document for information about GitHub pull request permissions.

GitHub Issues

This repository has the following issue templates:

1. Bug reports for inconsistencies, either in mechanics or lore.
2. Minor fixes. Find a typo or grammatical error? Let us know.
3. Question, to start dialogs about the design process or anything that's not clear.
4. Feature requests. What should the team prioritize next? Feel free to submit your own ideas here, as a general idea others could expand upon or a first draft.

License

Present materials adapted from Fandom wiki licensing.

Deck of Adventures Versions < 1.1.0 material is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) by admin users (see Community Roles) Deck of Adventures documentation (hereafter ‘licensees’).

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Contributing to the Deck of Adventures

To grow this community-driven TTRPG and fandom, licensees encourage the submission of supplemental materials. By editing or otherwise contributing to a page that uses the CC BY-NC-SA license, you agree to license any text you change or contribute under the CC BY-NC-SA license, subject to the waiver described here (“Commercial Use Waiver”). Please note that your contributions are shareable and remixable under such license, but cannot be used for commercial purposes by Deck of Adventures users. As a contributor, you agree that being attributed via our list of contributors page satisfies the attribution requirements of the license applicable to your contribution to a page. Contributions are always welcome as GitHub issues. GitHub pull requests should be reserved for major changes to at least one section, or minor changes across many sections (e.g., for terminology changes).

Contributions may take the form of suggested ideas or mechanics that could be implemented into the existing version. The Deck of Adventures admins reserve the right to choose which proposals and contributions are considered for integration, which are modified, adapted, play tested, and ultimately integrated into the current or future version.

An Issue will be tagged as "Under Consideration", "In Development", "In Play testing", and "Integrated" to establish where it is in the development cycle. Not all ideas will make it to the Integrated step, but every Contribution and comment from the Community is valued.

Commercial Use Waiver

If you contribute to, or have contributed to, Deck of Adventures content, you hereby waive such restriction with respect to licensees’s use of such contribution and any derivative works of such contribution.

Importing Text

If you want to provide contributions in which you do not own or control the copyright, you may only do so if you originally received such contributions under terms that are compatible with the license used on the page to which you intend to provide the contribution. In addition, you may not contribute to a page that uses a license that restricts commercial uses unless you hold the copyright to such contribution or otherwise have the right to grant the Commercial Use Waiver with respect to such contribution.

Non-text files

Freely licensed or public domain images are strongly preferred in contributions. Non-text media should not be assumed to be available under the same license as the text. If you are uploading files to Deck of Adventures, you should cite the source of the file, attribute the authors, and note any copyright information, where applicable.

Using Deck of Adventures Content

It is your responsibility to understand and adhere to the licenses that govern Deck of Adventures Content. Text from external sources may attach additional attribution requirements to the work beyond what is described on this page. When re-using text that has been posted subject to a Creative Commons license, you must provide attribution to the authors through direct listing of author(s) preferred citations. For example:

This article uses material from the “Character Creation" page at Deck of Adventures and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. Quoted content should not be assumed to be released under this license if this is not explicitly stated.

Translations

These licensing terms are not to be modified. If there is any inconsistency between these terms and any translation into other languages, the English language version takes precedence. Links will be added above to any unofficial translations.

Future Deck of Adventures Content

Licensees reserve the right to revise this license in tandem with major version updates.