Board Thread:Site Questions/@comment-36877863-20181004140435/@comment-36877863-20181004142504

See, that's what's tripping me up. If there were one author who created Innistrad and all its lore, or if there was a book written about it, then I would know it was a spinoff because I'm not the content creator. But unlike a lot of things in Magic (planeswalkers, planes, leonin, etc.) most of the thing on Innistrad aren't anyone's invention. WotC doesn't own vampires or werewolves or demons or ghosts. They do own Sorin Markov and Arlinn Kord and Ormendahl and Saint Traft. So if I'm using the former but not the latter, and if Innistrad is just a jumping-off point to get all of those things into one place, am I still violating rules?