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As has been mentioned, it's a big, muddled mess. Since Call of Cthulhu is in the public domain pretty much everywhere on earth, you could reprint the story or use any aspect of it in pretty much any way you'd like. But since "The Call of Cthulhu" is trademarked, you couldn't call it "The Call of...

As my fiancee would say, back up the track, yeah? WHFRP is a spin-off of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, not the other way around. The war game and the minis are the main line. They would not sell the Warhammer setting because WHFRP wasn't doing well any more than WotC would sell Dungeons and Dragons...

You know, Privateer is so amazingly awesome it hurts my head. But trying to remember they started doing D20 books is kind of weird. They make awesome miniatures and they have wargaming rules that are among the best I've ever seen... but it does go to show you, they didn't feel confined by the...

I do have to agree with Danny here. Being environmentally responsible is far more important that profit or shrinkage issues. And I'm not saying that sarcastically. Companies have a responsibility to find ways to do business in earth-friendly ways, and putting tiny products in huge packages to...

To be fair, as soon as Vampire took off, White Wolf launched the *book: Garbage series. But yeah, it took a declining interest in D&D for White Wolf and Shadowrun to break out of the pack. I think the OGL just sort of made it worse for third parties. A bunch sprang up selling dreck, and the...

I think it could. Monopolistic industry leaders can stunt the growth of an industry. When Atari imploded, it was the end of home video games. Until Nintendo came along and the market exploded. The market grew more under Nintendo's stewardship, then grew further under the guidance of Sony. But...

Games Workshop, the biggest name in miniatures wargaming.

Does not seem like a good place to buy real estate, those things happen every tuesday. "No Flesh-Eating Ogres."

I never said there was one. My point there is that as far as the cultural zeitgeist is concerned, people who aren't still convinced D&D is satanic have labeled it as the favorite passtime of hopelessly nerdy 35 year old virgins who snort when they laugh. I don't think the Dungeons and Dragons...

My guess? Nothing, really. Goodman Games would go out of business, maybe a few other 3rd party publishers that only sell D&D supplements and have firmly hitched their wagon to WoTC (I can only assume the GSL will end if D&D goes under), but in the grand scheme of things, I don't see it having an...

Yeah, this is just it. I don't think 4e is going to have an role-playing intensive products. In fact, there was only really ever one role-play heavy D&D campaign, in my eyes, Birthright, and it was a massive failure. I mean, I've run D&D campaigns that turned into dinner theater before. Great...

Direct to Video Animation. It's a growing market, and more people will probably see it this way than otherwise. Marvel and DC are doing pretty well going this route.

Right here. I bought second edition and the FR grey box because I had read Curse of the Azure Bonds, which I read because I recognized the name from the ads for the PC game.

Hmm... I thought game mechanics couldn't be copyrighted? I think I might want to think long and hard before I published unlicensed 4e material, were I previously inclined.

Your biggest threats are Gaea's Blessing, Splinter, and Psychatog. Blessing needs to be fished out of the library, with a jester's cap or lobotomy or something. Splinter can just be countered, you can never ever let it resolve. Psychatog is blue/black, make sure you have some sort of method...

What I meant by not an issue is that it's likely they can get all the profit they expect to gain on them newer OGL books in two months and not be bothered about them after that.

Actually, I didn't know that about Blockbuster. But I was going to switch to them if Netflix had gone ahead and eliminated profiles, just to show my displeasure with my buying power. Actually, announcing the change and then going back to business as usual did gain Netflix some general good will...

You know Warmachine and Warhammer both have campaign rules where characters can grow in power and one game effects the next. It's possible to make Warhammer almost like risk, but with every clash being played out between 2000 point armies. It's a small leap to assuming the role of the force...

The way I see it, no matter how you try to spin it, this is bad news. Gleemax kind of sucked, and it didn't work right. Okay, fair enough. But it is a service people use, and telling us how awesome it is that we're going to have reduced functionality is kind of insulting. It reminds me of when...

Probably not an issue. After all, DC and Marvel work with having to sell all their product in one month, and they seem to be doing okay.