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<blockquote data-quote="Dinkeldog" data-source="post: 2505668" data-attributes="member: 195">Jonny, there's a difference between saying that games that come after other games are informed by those games and saying that they're plagiarized.&nbsp; You claim that Dancey states that Warhammer2 is plagiarized.&nbsp; Someone else is going to say that it's informed by.&nbsp; So here's my view of the problem.&nbsp; You're looking for a Truth that just doesn't exist.&nbsp; Like most things in the real world, shades of grey exist.&nbsp; Then when you see a shade of grey, you seem to choose either black or white and try to turn it into Truth or Falsehood.&nbsp; These things simply don't exist.I remember arguments like this happening when Sword of Shannara is compared to Lord of the Rings and people would take offense at the suggestion that it was derivative of Tolkein.&nbsp; Surely, there are many similarities, and LotR is a staple and Brooks surely read LotR at some point.&nbsp; I haven't gotten anyone here saying that Dancey should be hailed as getting credit for Warhammer.&nbsp; Remember that the authors of D&amp;D 3E are really Monte Cook, Jonathon Tweet, and Sean K. Reynolds.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dinkeldog, post: 2505668, member: 195"] Jonny, there's a difference between saying that games that come after other games are informed by those games and saying that they're plagiarized. You claim that Dancey states that Warhammer2 is plagiarized. Someone else is going to say that it's informed by. So here's my view of the problem. You're looking for a Truth that just doesn't exist. Like most things in the real world, shades of grey exist. Then when you see a shade of grey, you seem to choose either black or white and try to turn it into Truth or Falsehood. These things simply don't exist. I remember arguments like this happening when Sword of Shannara is compared to Lord of the Rings and people would take offense at the suggestion that it was derivative of Tolkein. Surely, there are many similarities, and LotR is a staple and Brooks surely read LotR at some point. I haven't gotten anyone here saying that Dancey should be hailed as getting credit for Warhammer. Remember that the authors of D&D 3E are really Monte Cook, Jonathon Tweet, and Sean K. Reynolds. [/QUOTE]

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