This PDF cover has to be seen...

[JustKim]

There's a difference between being inspired by something and taking material from it. This guy apparently doesn't realize that difference (or doesn't care).

The Legacy Powers on pages 5+ of the Game Master's Fantasy Guide are out of TSR's Red Steel setting. I was one of the handful of people who played Red Steel and recognized it immediately.

I checked my Red Steel Campaign book, and it seems to be copied almost word for word. Even the campaign-distinctive detriments are included. I remember WotC offered a free PDF of the setting on their earlier edition PDFs page, so it may have been copied and pasted directly from there.

I imagine that takes up about 20 pages of the PDF.

 

[jdrakeh]

The Legacy Powers on pages 5+ of the Game Master's Fantasy Guide are out of TSR's Red Steel setting. I was one of the handful of people who played Red Steel and recognized it immediately.

Please report this to RPGNow (if you haven't already)! I would report it myself if I owned the Game Master's Fantasy Guide, but I'm not going to purchase a potentially infringing work just to report it.

 

[nedjer]

It's a tough economy, they have to cut costs were they can.

Perhaps a further cut to slick typography would have been a good option.

 

[Merkuri]

The Legacy Powers on pages 5+ of the Game Master's Fantasy Guide are out of TSR's Red Steel setting. I was one of the handful of people who played Red Steel and recognized it immediately.

Yes, please report that. I used the "contact us" button on the bottom of the page. You'll be doing RPGNow a favor, as they can get in trouble for selling copyright-infringing material (I think).

If two different people report two different products from this guy they might decide to pull down all of his work. Judging by what I've seen so far that would be a good thing.

 

[tenkar]

Check out his latest offering - Pscion Blades & Aura Blades. 12 pages for $10 bucks - reduced from $20!

I'm not sure this falls under the humor tag anymore...

No free preview? Damn. heh

Wonder what his next product is going to be, page and price-wise? Since he's lifting these pretty liberally from other products, the least he could do is offer a better page to cost ratio

 

[Lord Xtheth]

Another piece of his, for $25:

Snake Dragon in Pen by Gerald Bocian | ArtWanted.com

Face + Palm = _______________

Words are failing me right now.

First you draw an "S" then you draw a slightly smaller "s", put a big muscle arm, and TROGDOR!

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

The Legacy Powers on pages 5+ of the Game Master's Fantasy Guide are out of TSR's Red Steel setting. I was one of the handful of people who played Red Steel and recognized it immediately.

I checked my Red Steel Campaign book, and it seems to be copied almost word for word. Even the campaign-distinctive detriments are included. I remember WotC offered a free PDF of the setting on their earlier edition PDFs page, so it may have been copied and pasted directly from there.

Ooh, that's bad. BTW, the free .pdfs are still available under the Savage Coast name. You can at least still find them on the official Mystara fan site. Haven't checked WotC's downloads sections in ages. . .

I was very close to having some sympathy with all of critical piling on towards his art. But this amount of blatant plagiarism is just . . . unforgivable.

 

[Edgewood]

The art may be bad, but he's got an entire thread of posters talking about him. I did most of the artwork for Sword's Edge Publishing and never received a peep, so the artist is doing something right I guess.

 

[pawsplay]

He's also swapped out the original Potion cover for this:

What I don't understand is why he doesn't even bother to put the product name on the cover. It's sort of traditional.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

The pics of the blue-haired demon chick and the strung-out wizard in a raincoat keep replacing each other seemingly at random whenever I reload the posts in this thread (or look at the product on different pages on the sales site). What's up with that?

It's seriously freaky.