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IRONSWORN LICENSING

Non-Commercial Works

The complete text of the Ironsworn roleplaying game (and its supplement, Ironsworn: Delve) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. This includes the rulebook, asset cards, and all handouts. This means you may create derivative works using that text, but may not use the material for commercial purposes.

Commercial Works

If you want to publish and sell your own work using the Ironsworn system, the contents of the Ironsworn System Reference Document (SRD) are available for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license. In addition, the text of the Ironsworn asset cards and oracle tables, and the text of the Ironsworn: Delve moves, oracles, and theme/domain cards are now available under this same license. 

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Your Responsibilities

  • You must include an attribution referencing Ironsworn (see "How to Provide Credit").

  • The non-commercial license is limited to the text of the Ironsworn and Ironsworn: Delve rulebook, asset cards, and handouts. The commercial license is limited to the content defined above (see "Commercial Works"). You may not otherwise use Ironsworn images, icons, or other design elements within your work.

  • You cannot state or imply that your work is an official Ironsworn product.

  • You must distribute non-commercial works under the same license as the original (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license).

  • Although the CC license does not allow me to introduce additional binding conditions, I would expect and ask that your work not include content that is bigoted, racist, homophobic, transphobic, or otherwise discriminatory. Please help support a positive, inclusive ethos.

How to Provide Credit

Wherever you put copyright information in your work, include the following text.

For non-commercial works:

This work is based on Ironsworn (found at www.ironswornrpg.com), created by Shawn Tomkin, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license  (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).

For commercial works:

This work is based on Ironsworn (found at www.ironswornrpg.com), created by Shawn Tomkin, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

If you are publishing digitally, you may embed the links and omit the URL's.

Starforged LIcensing

Non-Commercial Works

The complete text of the Ironsworn: Starforged roleplaying game is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. This includes the rulebook, asset cards, and all handouts. This means you may create derivative works using that text, but may not use the material for commercial purposes.

If you want to publish and sell your own work based on Ironsworn: Starforged, the complete text of the Starforged Reference Guide is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license. This includes the rules summaries, moves, and oracles. The text of the game handouts and asset cards are also licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license.

Official
Starforged content is also available in JSON format under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY)
license for use in community tools through the Dataforged API. A web-based SRD is coming later in 2023.

Commercial Works

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Your Responsibilities

  • You must include an attribution referencing Ironsworn: Starforged (see "How to Provide Credit").

  • The non-commercial license is limited to the text of the Ironsworn: Starforged rulebook, asset cards, and handouts. The commercial license is limited to the text of the Starforged Reference Guide, asset cards, and handouts. You may not otherwise use the Ironsworn: Starforged images, icons, or other design elements within your work.

  • You cannot state or imply that your work is an official Ironsworn: Starforged product.

  • You must distribute non-commercial works under the same license as the original (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license).

  • Although the CC license does not allow me to introduce additional binding conditions, I would expect and ask that your work not include content that is bigoted, racist, homophobic, transphobic, or otherwise discriminatory. Please help support a positive, inclusive ethos.

How to Provide Credit

Wherever you put copyright information in your work, include the following text.

For non-commercial works:

This work is based on Ironsworn: Starforged (found at www.ironswornrpg.com), created by Shawn Tomkin, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license  (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).

For commercial works:

This work is based on Ironsworn: Starforged (found at www.ironswornrpg.com), created by Shawn Tomkin, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

If you are publishing digitally, you may embed the links and omit the URL's.

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