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<blockquote data-quote="Shawn_Kehoe" data-source="post: 3673273" data-attributes="member: 21894">Hi all,The News Page includes a vague news blurb from Mongoose about an &quot;extremely popular gaming IP&quot; license that will be the basis of a new RPG system, to be announced on Saturday.Anyone want to take a break from 4th Edition speculation and speculate about this instead?&quot;Gaming IP&quot; could refer to either an RPG or a computer game / video game.If they are referring to a pen n' paper RPG, well ... the choices narrow depending on how seriously we take the &quot;extremely popular&quot; boast. GURPS and World of Darkness have had revisions in the past two years, and I can't imagine WotC offering up a setting after all the non-renewals of the past year. So I'm gonna go out on a limb and say...Call of CthulhuReasons why this makes sense:1) Mongoose has the license to RuneQuest, which the original CoC system was based upon. They even mention RuneQuest in the announcement.2) Most of the Cthulhu Mythos stories have fallen into public domain - whereas when CoC first premiered in the 1981, Chaosium had the exclusive license to the stories. (Hence the Deities &amp; Demigods debacle.)3) The defining gameplay mechanic of CoC (Sanity rules) became Open Gaming Content with the publication of Unearthed Arcana.4) To call Chaosium's publication schedule of the past few years erratic would be incredibly generous.Without claim to the Sanity mechanic or the stories themselves, the only real tool that Chaosium is the name itself: &quot;Call of Cthulhu&quot; is a registered trademark in Chaosium's name, even if the story itself is public domain. I could see Chaosium leasing out the CoC RPG rights to Mongoose, keepers of Runequest, while a skeleton staff at Chaosium handled the IP in other forms.But they did mention a new RPG system, and the CoC faithful are notoriously conservative, as CoC d20 showed us. I'm probably wrong, and instead we'll get a Viva Pinata RPG. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Theories?Shawn</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shawn_Kehoe, post: 3673273, member: 21894"] Hi all, The News Page includes a vague news blurb from Mongoose about an "extremely popular gaming IP" license that will be the basis of a new RPG system, to be announced on Saturday. Anyone want to take a break from 4th Edition speculation and speculate about this instead? "Gaming IP" could refer to either an RPG or a computer game / video game. If they are referring to a pen n' paper RPG, well ... the choices narrow depending on how seriously we take the "extremely popular" boast. GURPS and World of Darkness have had revisions in the past two years, and I can't imagine WotC offering up a setting after all the non-renewals of the past year. So I'm gonna go out on a limb and say... [B]Call of Cthulhu[/B] Reasons why this makes sense: 1) Mongoose has the license to RuneQuest, which the original CoC system was based upon. They even mention RuneQuest in the announcement. 2) Most of the Cthulhu Mythos stories have fallen into public domain - whereas when CoC first premiered in the 1981, Chaosium had the exclusive license to the stories. (Hence the Deities & Demigods debacle.) 3) The defining gameplay mechanic of CoC (Sanity rules) became Open Gaming Content with the publication of Unearthed Arcana. 4) To call Chaosium's publication schedule of the past few years erratic would be incredibly generous. Without claim to the Sanity mechanic or the stories themselves, the only real tool that Chaosium is the name itself: "Call of Cthulhu" is a registered trademark in Chaosium's name, even if the story itself is public domain. I could see Chaosium leasing out the CoC RPG rights to Mongoose, keepers of Runequest, while a skeleton staff at Chaosium handled the IP in other forms. But they did mention a new RPG system, and the CoC faithful are notoriously conservative, as CoC d20 showed us. I'm probably wrong, and instead we'll get a Viva Pinata RPG. :) Theories? Shawn [/QUOTE]

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