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I'd go for "as in your favourite role playing game" or similar.

You can use paizo's community use license, but only if you don't charge for your novella.

The pathfinder compatibility license doesn't seem to apply (as it isn't actually "compatible" per se).

Ultimately, any trademark holder is going to be protective of their IP (or they wouldn't have bothered registering the trademark), so I'd go for something more generic - it seems to me you'll get the same point across without naming a specific system.

Do you have any ideas of things I could say? I'd hopefully like to be able to justify finishing writing the novella

As you read above I'm writing a High Fantasy novella about a child who's captured and his tribe destroyed. The child is forced into slavery under a rich mercenary company owner and molded into a perfect soldier.

I'd like to simply have the novella be "In the Pathfinder Universe" on the cover and in It's description. I'm not seeking any kind of official publishing I simply want to describe it as that so It's more clear what kind of high fantasy it's in. Preferably I would say It's in the D&D universe but we all know how Wizards Of The Coast are. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'd like to sell the novella for a pittance so I might be able to use the money for education and such. But I don't simply want to go ahead without asking and end up getting in alot of trouble later.