As a German GM, I've done partial translations of the flavor text of several AP's by now (the second half of Jade Regent, all of Wrath of the Righteous, beginning on Rise of the Runelords), since I got a player in my group who has a very poor command of the English language.
Since I'd like to spare other German GM's the arduous work of translating, I would like to share my translations, as poor as they may be, with other fans on the appropiate board.
But since the AP's are, of course, the property of Paizo, I'm first asking if I can do this under the community guidelines, without getting into trouble with you guys. :) So, what's the official stance on this issue? The translated parts are mostly the flavor text for locations and speeches from NPC's.
As a direct follow-up question, in case that you allow me to post the translations, can I post them directly to a thread or would you require me to only provide a link to an uploaded document?
There have been threads in the past on the RotRL forum about making fan translations to German and Spanish and publishing them on blogs. Although those projects seem to have gone nowhere, what I didn't find was a plain forbiddance of those actions by Paizo.
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While the use of Paizo's intellectual property is covered under the Community Use Policy, the policy does not permit the use of dialogue or descriptions of events in our adventures except in specific circumstances:
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Alright, that's too bad. I had hoped to alleviate some GM's work a bit. Oh, well, I guess my translations will be for myself and my groups, only.