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<blockquote data-quote="an_idol_mind" data-source="post: 8301690" data-attributes="member: 43749"><p>My rl example of why the basic liability protection is there is that, circa 1999, I submitted a race of humanoids bonded with dragon eggs called the dragonborn for one of WotC's magazines. It got rejected, but a few years later dragonborn popped up in an official book. </p><p></p><p>Was it the same race? No, but if you squint you could see similarities. Did someone at WotC use my idea? No...I doubt anybody involved in that book had even seen my rejected article. </p><p></p><p>But if there wasn't the degree of legal protection in place, I still could have raised a hullabaloo. Despite the fact that the races were really only tangentially similar, despite the fact that the name dragonborn is not unique enough for me to claim that I originated it, and despite the fact that humanoids with ties to dragons is easy to come up with in parallel design. </p><p></p><p>Don't submit something for this contest that you might want to publish yourself in another format. But don't make the mistake of thinking that it's some nefarious plan for WotC to steal ideas from the community, either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="an_idol_mind, post: 8301690, member: 43749"] My rl example of why the basic liability protection is there is that, circa 1999, I submitted a race of humanoids bonded with dragon eggs called the dragonborn for one of WotC's magazines. It got rejected, but a few years later dragonborn popped up in an official book. Was it the same race? No, but if you squint you could see similarities. Did someone at WotC use my idea? No...I doubt anybody involved in that book had even seen my rejected article. But if there wasn't the degree of legal protection in place, I still could have raised a hullabaloo. Despite the fact that the races were really only tangentially similar, despite the fact that the name dragonborn is not unique enough for me to claim that I originated it, and despite the fact that humanoids with ties to dragons is easy to come up with in parallel design. Don't submit something for this contest that you might want to publish yourself in another format. But don't make the mistake of thinking that it's some nefarious plan for WotC to steal ideas from the community, either. [/QUOTE]
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