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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8260035" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Yeah...I guess you could say we are a bit of a "prolific bunch" when it comes to creating stuff for the game. The short history of the site: Wout Broerer (I always mess up spelling his last name) started it back in the...late 80's or very early 90's iirc (basically when the net started to become more mainstream and not just "AOL", "CompuServ" or whatever). Avalon Hill was contacted and asked about it; AH basically said... "Huh? What? We own that game? Oh...right...whateve's. Go for it" (they were in the process of winding down all their RPG...and, it turned out, most other of their games). Then TSR bought AH. So TSR was contacted. Or we (I say "we" as a community, not that I had any direct involvement other than my own personal emails to them about purchasing the rights to P&P...I never heard back... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> ).......uh...oh... yeah, we did hear back from TSR. Eventually. It took a LONG time, but for TSR to not issue a "Stop or we'll sue!" letter was telling. Turns out, the lawyers at TSR didn't even HAVE a record of TSR owning P&P! O_O They did, of course, but they didn't know it. So...they basically said "Oh, that game? Pffft! Whatever...just don't sell it". Ok, great! The site grew. Then WotC bought TSR. Same thing....we tried contacting WotC about it..."What game now? Huh? We own that? Yeah, whateve's. Just don't sell it". Then Hasbro bought WotC. Same thing.... this time, it took, iirc over a year, or was it two?, for us to get an answer. And this was WITH the help of the games creator, Richard Snider. I'm not sure on the details, but I think Richard had certain rights to the game still residing with him. Because of this, Hasbro basically said the same as every other owner... "Huh. Ok. Whatever. Just don't sell it". And here we are now. Almost 40 years since P&P was created (1983). Richard, before his passing (RIP, Richard, <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> ), was working on a "2e" of P&P, with direct input and help from all us fans. It (v2) is still being worked on by the fans of the game in memory of Richard. It is available on the site as well, fyi.There may not be a huge following of us, but there's enough to keep stuff interesting every now and then and to keep additions, changes, etc flowing. Just check out the "Players" list at the top of the site.Again, any questions, join the Mailing List or even the Discord. There's virtually zero "fighting/arguing" that goes on...mostly just comments, suggestions and questions. Very friendly! <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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