I think that even they would welcome that. It seems like they are constantly facing some kind of financial apocalypse or another, so the free exposure would be accepted without their historical legal action.
I know you know this, but "trade dress" is just legal shorthand for the tort of "passing off". It's a difficult civil action to win -- and liability is easily avoided if avoidance is your aim. I honestly don't think it is likely to arise in any of the circumstances we are discussing here.
I mean, Wizards does have a sponsorship deal with Critical Role IIRC. But that was under the old regime. A change of execs leads to changes of thinking a lot of the time, which is what's going on now. So getting some video game execs in there means they're trying to apply their video game thoughts to an industry that is only superficially the same.
Could you imagine? I'd actually watch a stream of folks in their 20s grappling with Megaversal rules for the first time after playing nothing but 5e D&D.
Oh god the flashbacks. Ahhhh it's amazing what you retain from games you haven't played for 20 years.
I mean, imagine coming across their famous "mental disorder" table, that they copied and pasted into every book for 25 years, that you get from "doing drugs too much" in 2023?
Oh no lol oh god there's so much in Rifts which just wouldn't fly today
There's a really easy cure. Just like, drag out your Rifts core book and start trying to make a character. If that fails, get Rifts South America (or is it South America 2?) out and start looking at the Psychic Cat Superheros until your brain's reset switch trips.Why do I want to play Rifts now?
To be fair to Palladium, I think they finally edited the mental disorders to remove homosexuality.
I just want to watch their session 0 where they make characters. And be reminded of all of the things that we thought were fine in the 90s that are really not.
A couple of my friends loved making TMNT characters. Not playing them, just random generating weirdos. We then moved onto Heroes Unlimited where we found the worst combinations of superpowers. And that is how the hybrid son of The Thing and Aquaman appeared: Aquarock!
Yeah we did that too. Just making TMNT characters for fun. Consumed alot of Kool-Aid into the wee hours of the morning to make a college educated Rhino Man for no reason. Good times.
That was the main way we used TMNT, just creating a lot of characters.
Yes. Character creation in TMNT was one of the best parts of the game. Playing with those BIO-E computations to get the weirdest character you could find was a fun mini-game, even if it often led to characters that you'd never be able to play.
TBF they COULD make more realms (not my first second or 5th choice) or Ebberon content too. The thing is people hombrewed spelljammer and planescape and darksun if they were die hard years ago...
of the dozen or so players I know well 3/4 of us own PHB and at least 1 other book... about 1/3 to 1/2 have tasha's too... there is no adventure (not one) that we own more then 2 copies of between us except curse of strahd, and I own 2 of those.
I had a guy who used to have an index card that said "Adults should work for Money not Stickers" on there cubical...
Superpower sinking like a stone in the ocean?
cause the setting and concepts aree AWESOME, and the world building is AMAZING... even if the system... um, lets be nice and say 'needs work'Why do I want to play Rifts now?
