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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...

As he said, its also a common perception of Hero, and while Hero has some initial engagement needed (learning to count Normal dice and...

It's not even that. Derivative works are a different can of fish, and licensed as such. Certain things cannot be copyrighted. The courts...

Not copying exact text?

No, it's not at all. Mechanics are not plagiarism. Plagiarism is taking the representation of another person's language, thoughts...

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...

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...

A lot of indie style games these days openly list their references and inspirations. It's a good thing to be influenced by other...

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...

The issue is the word 'charity' not 'fair price'.

Paying a fair price for something isn't 'charity'.

I don't really have a consistent price point- just that as it goes up, I'm less impulsive about buys. I have certain practices that...

Thank you for this. I try to tell people that, and it seems to go over heads all the time. CGen, and to an extent leveling are the only...

As a creator myself, I like “steal” for much the reasons I like “elfgames”: it encourages a good perspective about the innately...

I mean, honestly, this seems an odd argument. If you consider deriving your mechanics and concepts from other games immoral, that...