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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 7723667" data-attributes="member: 6779310"><p>Mongoose went and grabbed the trademark for RuneQuest when Greg Stafford went to get it, AH having abandoned it.</p><p></p><p>Mongoose then went to Greg and used the trademark to coerce a license for Glorantha out of Greg ... it worked. Greg got ownership of the trademark, and Mongoose got to produce a (often said to be substandard) version of RuneQuest using the Glorantha setting.</p><p></p><p>The use of Star Frontiers for a totally unrelated except in high concept setting would be no better and no worse than what was done with New BSG... lots of free press for a story that really didn't have much to do with the older one except for a few names and the high concept; the character concepts weren't even the same.</p><p></p><p>Or, going back a bit, the 1978-1980 Buck Rogers was a completely new take on the IP - the characters' personalities were retained, as was the 500 year gap, but the rest? totally different. And, for 1.25 seasons, it worked on TV...</p><p></p><p>The real question about it in a new setting context is, "Is the extant fanbase enough to generate useful spin, and not so much that it ruins the saleability?"</p><p></p><p>With Alternity, which had multiple settings anyway, and none in the core, the answer was seen to be "Yes, enough for spin, not so much as to ruin sales"...</p><p></p><p>Now, if it's faithful to the original in the setting, and reasonably close (but modernized) in rules, it might hit a sweet spot in the nostalgia market... much like S&W Whitebox does.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 7723667, member: 6779310"] Mongoose went and grabbed the trademark for RuneQuest when Greg Stafford went to get it, AH having abandoned it. Mongoose then went to Greg and used the trademark to coerce a license for Glorantha out of Greg ... it worked. Greg got ownership of the trademark, and Mongoose got to produce a (often said to be substandard) version of RuneQuest using the Glorantha setting. The use of Star Frontiers for a totally unrelated except in high concept setting would be no better and no worse than what was done with New BSG... lots of free press for a story that really didn't have much to do with the older one except for a few names and the high concept; the character concepts weren't even the same. Or, going back a bit, the 1978-1980 Buck Rogers was a completely new take on the IP - the characters' personalities were retained, as was the 500 year gap, but the rest? totally different. And, for 1.25 seasons, it worked on TV... The real question about it in a new setting context is, "Is the extant fanbase enough to generate useful spin, and not so much that it ruins the saleability?" With Alternity, which had multiple settings anyway, and none in the core, the answer was seen to be "Yes, enough for spin, not so much as to ruin sales"... Now, if it's faithful to the original in the setting, and reasonably close (but modernized) in rules, it might hit a sweet spot in the nostalgia market... much like S&W Whitebox does. [/QUOTE]
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