Hasbro CEO: "D&D is Really on a Tear"

Sorry, that laugh was a result of clumsy fingers on my phone.

 

[Kramodlog]

Is a splash like a tear?

 

[Shasarak]

Collectible? I do not think it means what you think it means. D&D books are collectible just like comic books. Comic books are for reading entertainment but once you have read them then you still keep them. If I buy a module and play with it then I'm not going to discard it when we are done playing it. I will keep it on the shelf and add it to my collection.

I think that is true. DnD books are exactly as collectible as comic books (with a lower pool of collectors).

 

[Shasarak]

Dracula is public domain no?

Until Disney wants to make a Dracula movie.

 

[darjr]

Is a splash like a tear?

Less like a rip and more like a bang!

It's opportunity knocking.

http://www.polygon.com/2015/4/22/8470473/dungeons-dragons-virtual-tabletop-fantasy-grounds

http://www.pcgamer.com/fantasy-ground-steam-dungeons-dragons/

 

[Kramodlog]

Less like a rip and more like a bang!

So its the bomb or a bomb?

 

[pickin_grinnin]

I have heard "on a tear" all my life. It's a very common idiom around here (Texas). Maybe it's a regional idiom.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Until Disney wants to make a Dracula movie.

While I appreciate the sentiment here--particularly because I've had conversations on the topic with a friend of mine who was in law school, and has now passed his bar exam--I'm fairly sure it doesn't work that way. That is, once public domain, always public domain. You can't take it back, especially if it's not yours to begin with. Besides, Brahm Stoker died over 100 years ago anyway, which certainly meets "author's lifetime + 75 years."

 

[Shasarak]

While I appreciate the sentiment here--particularly because I've had conversations on the topic with a friend of mine who was in law school, and has now passed his bar exam--I'm fairly sure it doesn't work that way. That is, once public domain, always public domain. You can't take it back, especially if it's not yours to begin with. Besides, Brahm Stoker died over 100 years ago anyway, which certainly meets "author's lifetime + 75 years."

Lifetime + 75 years is already ridiculous, so why not +100 years if you have a big enough lobby fund?

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Lifetime + 75 years is already ridiculous, so why not +100 years if you have a big enough lobby fund?

Well even if you did do that, he died in 1912, so you're still a few years short. But even if it weren't--Dracula never got copyright here in the US (Stoker failed to follow procedure, apparently), and in the UK and elsewhere it expired in 1962, 50 years after his death (which was the law at the time in the UK). It's permanently in the public domain. A particular *version* of it could be copyrighted--like how Frozen is a unique retelling of The Snow Queen--but only to the extent that it is a unique retelling. As a simple example, the imagery and costuming are totally copyrightable things, but the idea of a shady vampire lord living in a remote European castle cannot.

 

[transtemporal]

"Tear" as in ripping, not "tear" as in eye moisture. It means that it's ripping up the competition (i.e. doing very well). American English
idioms

Right, gotcha! Like, "we're tearing the competition a new a hole!"

Or is it more mild than that?