Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad
Kre-O blocks are compatible with Lego bricks. Intentionally.
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Kre-O blocks are compatible with Lego bricks. Intentionally.
Hasbro should just buy Lego and start slapping Lego on their Kre-O products.
GMforPowergamers
Legend
I always love the Kre-o there is only a minor difference form the lego (something about the grip)
steeldragons
Steeliest of the dragons
And, again, like the man said...never heard of them before. "Compatible"...who cares if noone's ever heard of them? The crack-pot creative dept. at Hasbro couldn't come with something better than "Kre-O"?
And really...reeeeally, we're going to start throwing differentiation between plastic toy "blocks" and plastic toy 'bricks"? Really?!
Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad
Because you and someone else has never heard of them, this means nobody has ever heard of them? They are relatively new, but despite that my wife runs a parents group (for geek moms...she actually does some work for GeekMom), and all those kids have heard of them. These things are being sold all over the place - all the major stores that carries kids toys sell these things, and most of the minor stores too. They're backed by an ad campaign as well.
It's a South Korean branch that made them, off the Greek word meaning "To Create". That crack-pot creative department of Hasbro has made plenty of things a hit. It's, you know, what they professionally do.
No, I was quoting the description of the product. You're looking for things that just are not there.
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DMZ2112
Chaotic Looseleaf
No one confused anything with anything. If I'd said "D&D Kre-Os!" everyone would have said, "What's a Kre-O?"
Desdichado
Hero
Was he working on it while he was actually at work? On the WotC clock, using his WotC provided computer?
Because if not, geez, that's an absurdly onerous stipulation in an employment contract. I can't imagine anyone would stick around for that... or even accept it in the first place in this industry.
I doubt it, but I've no way of knowing. I know a lot of tech firms do that (including Apple and Google).
Both Monte and Stan! left, so it seems they agree. Stan! wrote some blogs about it a while back.
Many employers have you sign an agreement that you won't engage in any activity that would be a conflict of interest with the company - I would think designing your own RPG would be considered conflicting with them by at least some in management.
Also, a lot of employment contracts also have clauses that say the employee is not able to work for a competitor for a period of time after leaving employment with (in this case) WotC. They're typically one or two year time frames. That's not just the gaming industry - that's in a lot of industries. I remember when a local TV personality here in CT was hired by a local competitor - he was basically off the air for a year until the time elapsed. (Weren't movie stars in the olden days locked in with one studio?)
Covenant not to compete: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/covenant+not+to+compete
Desdichado
Hero
Yes, conflict of interest clauses are common in employment contracts. I know all about that.
Attempts to claim ownership of what you do in your off-work hours, on the other hand, is a an order of magnitude more onerous than telling employees not to engage in conflict of interest material, or risk losing their employment.
I'd be interested in knowing if there's any legal precedent that such a clause could stand up to a challenge in court or not.
Regardless, talk about tone-deaf management. It shouldn't be surprising that folks showed themselves to the door in that environment. Especially since in the early days of d20 it seems like most of the successful d20 start-ups were side projects of WotC employees.
Attempts to claim ownership of what you do in your off-work hours, on the other hand, is a an order of magnitude more onerous than telling employees not to engage in conflict of interest material, or risk losing their employment.
I'd be interested in knowing if there's any legal precedent that such a clause could stand up to a challenge in court or not.
Regardless, talk about tone-deaf management. It shouldn't be surprising that folks showed themselves to the door in that environment. Especially since in the early days of d20 it seems like most of the successful d20 start-ups were side projects of WotC employees.
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