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Ggban007 reacted to JLowder's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with
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The plan from the start with Dark Sun was for the RPG and fiction content to be related. Mary Kirchoff, then head of the Book... -
Ggban007 reacted to JLowder's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
Yes, I worked in the Book Department from 1988 to 1994 and was at one time series editor for both the Ravenloft and Realms fiction...
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Ggban007 reacted to JLowder's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
That's only true if you take the most cynical approach possible and the products do not stand alone, if you need to buy the fiction to...
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Ggban007 reacted to Phantom_Miria's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
Thread died down a little, so I guess I'll say some stuff I've been thinking about. At some point early in the thread someone said...
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GI finished the audiobook of The Stand, and loved it all over again. I also encountered a good insight into a common criticism of King...
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Ggban007 reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
I mean. I've eaten worse pizzas.
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Ggban007 reacted to pukunui's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
I know a guy who served in the US Navy in the Mediterranean. He said one time they had shore leave in Croatia, and he and some crewmates...
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Ggban007 reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Look. I'll explain it again, for the umpteenth time. I've been eating pizza since 1974 and I know what pizza is supposed to taste...
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Ggban007 reacted to Gradine's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
I dunno given the messenger here I'd be more inclined to figure that I'm doing just fine
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Ggban007 replied to the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs..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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Ggban007 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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Ggban007 reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs. with Like.
I mean, honestly, this seems an odd argument. If you consider deriving your mechanics and concepts from other games immoral, that...
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Ggban007 reacted to Arilyn's post in the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs. with Like.
I put steal in quotes for a reason, as it's not literally stealing games. Designers, of course, learn from each other. For example: 1...
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Ggban007 reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs. with Like.
And I'm not seeing a single moral issue. All work is built on prior work in one fashion or another, creative, technological or (as RPGs...
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Ggban007 reacted to soviet's post in the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs. with Like.
So, all art, all movies, all TV, all books, all RPGs other than yours, are immoral?