Welcome to the Nowhere Land creator community! These guidelines help ensure a welcoming, creative, and legally sound environment for everyone making third-party content.
🌟 OUR COMMUNITY VALUES
We celebrate weird, wonderful, and unexpected creations.
Content should be welcoming to all players and creators.
Credit inspirations, collaborate kindly, support fellow creators.
Strive for your best work, playtest thoroughly, iterate.
📋 CONTENT REQUIREMENTS
Required Elements
All third-party Nowhere Land content must include:
- • Attribution: "Nowhere Land by Joachim Mouffron" in credits
- • Website Link: Link to nowhere-land.com
- • Disclaimer: Statement that your product is third-party content
- • Designation: Use "Inspired by the Nowhere Land" or "A Nowhere Land Game"
Sample Attribution Text
"This product is compatible with the Nowhere Land system by Joachim Mouffron (nowhere-land.com). It is unofficial third-party content and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the original creator."
✅ ENCOURAGED CONTENT
What We Love to See
- • New Domains: Create your own pocket dimensions with unique blessings and curses
- • Scenarios & Adventures: Write modules for Tricksters to run
- • New Careers: Design careers with balanced abilities
- • Creatures & NPCs: Populate your domains with memorable inhabitants
- • Supplements: Random tables, character options, setting expansions
- • Hacks: Adapt the system for different genres or settings
- • Actual Play: Stream, podcast, or write about your games
- • Translations: Make Nowhere Land accessible in new languages
- • Accessibility Tools: Character sheets, reference cards, digital tools
⚠️ CONTENT RESTRICTIONS
❌ PROHIBITED CONTENT
- • Content that promotes discrimination, hate, or real-world harm
- • Sexual content involving minors (zero tolerance)
- • Content that violates others' intellectual property
- • Misleading claims about official endorsement or affiliation
- • Using "Nowhere Land" as the primary title of your product
- • Reproducing closed content (The Count's specific backstory, named NPCs' exact stat blocks, etc.)
Closed Content Reminder
The following require explicit permission to use:
- • The Count (character, backstory, and specific mechanics)
- • Named NPCs from official content
- • Named domains (Clockwork Citadel, Drowned Quarter, etc.)
- • Official scenario content and adventures
- • Artwork and visual assets from the official game
Contact licensing@nowhere-land.com for permission requests.
💰 COMMERCIAL CONTENT
Selling Your Content
You may sell your Nowhere Land content under these terms:
| Revenue under $1,000 | No royalty required ✓ |
| Revenue $1,000-$10,000 | 5% royalty on earnings above $1,000 |
| Revenue above $10,000 | Contact for licensing agreement |
| Non-profits & educators | Royalty waiver available ✓ |
Reporting & Payments
- • Self-Reporting: Annual self-reporting of sales
- • Payment: Via PayPal or bank transfer, annually
- • Records: Maintain sales records for 3 years
- • Good Faith: We trust creators; audits are rare
🎨 DESIGN GUIDANCE
Capturing the Nowhere Land Tone
Great Nowhere Land content feels:
- • Mysterious: Leave room for interpretation and discovery
- • Strange: Embrace the weird; logic is optional here
- • Dangerous: Nowhere Land is not a safe place
- • Personal: Connect to themes of identity, home, and belonging
- • Morally Complex: Avoid clear good/evil; embrace shades of gray
Balance Recommendations
When designing mechanical content:
- • Careers: 4-5 abilities, avoid abilities with no drawbacks
- • Blessings: Should have situational usefulness, not always-on power
- • Curses: Should be inconvenient, not character-ending
- • Creatures: Use the existing stat block format for consistency
- • Potentials: Reference existing potentials for power level
🤝 COMMUNITY SUPPORT
📢 Discord Community
Join our Discord for playtesting support, feedback, and to share your work.
Creator channels available for third-party creators.
🎪 Creator Showcase
Quality third-party content may be featured on the official website.
Submit your work for consideration via Discord.
📚 Creator Resources
Templates, style guides, and design tools available for download.
Including InDesign and Affinity Publisher templates.
🧪 Playtesting Network
Connect with playtesters who can provide feedback on your content.
Available through Discord community.
📝 SUBMISSION CHECKLIST
Before Publishing
Use this checklist before releasing your content:
- □ Attribution included with link to nowhere-land.com
- □ Third-party disclaimer present
- □ "Inspired by the Nowhere Land" or "A Nowhere Land Game" designation used
- □ No closed content reproduced without permission
- □ Content reviewed for prohibited material
- □ Mechanics playtested for balance
- □ Proofread for clarity and typos
- □ PDF/file format accessible (text selectable, bookmarked)
❓ FAQ
Can I translate the core rules?
Yes! Translations are welcome. Please include a note that it's an unofficial fan translation unless you've arranged official translation rights.
Can I reference The Count in my content?
You may mention The Count exists and reference the Ledger system. You cannot reproduce his backstory, specific dialogue, or use him as a main character without permission.
Can I stream/record actual play?
Absolutely! No permission needed for streaming, podcasting, or recording your games. We'd love if you tagged @NowhereLandTTRPG on social media!
Can I use AI-generated art?
We don't restrict AI art usage, but we encourage supporting human artists. If using AI art, please disclose it.
What if I'm unsure about something?
Reach out! Email licensing@nowhere-land.com or ask in the Discord. We're happy to clarify.
Ready to Create?
The portals are open. The domains await your imagination. We can't wait to see what strange and wonderful things you create.
Guidelines Version 1.0 | Last Updated: February 6, 2026