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Autumnal reacted to chuckdee's post in the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs. with
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It's not even that. Derivative works are a different can of fish, and licensed as such. Certain things cannot be copyrighted. The courts... -
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To be worth a damn as a designer, you need to know three key things: who you're writing for, what has worked for them in the past, and...
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Autumnal reacted to chuckdee's post in the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs. with Like.
No, it's not at all. Mechanics are not plagiarism. Plagiarism is taking the representation of another person's language, thoughts...
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Autumnal reacted to chuckdee's post in the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs. with Like.
AI art is a completely different animal, mostly because of the fact that the AI is replicating actual work, i.e. the strokes of a brush...
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Autumnal reacted to LuisCarlos17f's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
I guess the true goals aren't really to sell more sourcebooks but the update is to recover brand-power and then these subfranchises...
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Autumnal replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.Technically “blade runner” comes from Nourse, not Burroughs, but otherwise, carry on.
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Hmmm, Vance's Dying Earth would've been my second pick. For third place, it'd probably have to be Lord of the Rings. Without it, you...
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I read King for the first time this year and while I have a little break right now I definitely want to continue through his work - I...
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Autumnal reacted to gban007's post in the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs. with Like.
Feels to me if can't use prior work as inspiration, then presumably a new moral rpg would not have: Classes Levels 6 attributes A...
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I have a copy of that anthology sitting in my Library Book TPR pile. It's a chonker, but short stories are easier for me to take as...
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Autumnal reacted to aramis erak's post in the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs. with Like.
In the US, it's blackletter law (that is, explicit in the text of the law) that the rules of a game cannot be copyright protected. It is...
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Autumnal reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread GURPS Fantasy / Dungeon Fantasy (and beyond) with Like.
FIGURED IT OUT! The game Steve Jackson Games’ Battlesuit (1983). It’s a power armor infantry combat game set within a single OGRE/GEV...
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Autumnal reacted to Desdichado's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Best third party campaign books - recommend me some with Like.
Because I'm wary of scope creep. I'm already familiar with Cthulhu campaigns, Paizo adventure paths and, of course, like I mentioned...
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Autumnal reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Best third party campaign books - recommend me some with Like.
Ptolus contains several campaigns within it, with one particular one foregrounded that goes from the depths of the Dungeon below up to...
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Autumnal reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Best third party campaign books - recommend me some with Like.
Northlands Saga stuff from Frog God appeals to me the most of their 5e stuff, though they have not converted the entire saga yet that...