Re: (TFT) Howard Thompson & TFT

[Rick Smith <rsmith@lightspeed.ca>]

They have rewritten the rules so they are free and
clear.  I rather like the wording of many TFT rules
as SJ writes in a clear style.  So I would prefer
to start with his rules and go from there.

Maybe if I win a lottery.

Rick

On Tue, 2011-04-10 at 14:20 -0500, Nathan Easton wrote:
> Dark City games has been publishing a clone of it for a while now.  Unless
> they have permission to do that, I think it's pretty good evidence that
> nobody out there is inclined to defend the IP.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Jay Carlisle <maou.tsaou@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Contrary to popular belief, he did not disappear or become a hermit, and
> > > has always been locatable, but he has zero contact with gaming in any
> > > way.  Various attempts to speak with him about gaming have gone ignored.
> > >
> >
> > Copyright and trademark can only go so far.
> > The basic concepts of the mechanics are "free game" (ick, pardon the pun)
> > from a design p.o.v.
> > In other words someone using the "spirit" of TFT w/o directly using any of
> > its text or setting is going to be reasonably okay from a "legal"
> > standpoint.
> > I'd be much more uncomfortable about this view if the thing wasn't dead
> > well
> > neigh these 30 years or so but there it is.
> > A person would have to be making some actual money off of this for it to
> > even start to be an issue... I figure I'll worry about that if I ever get
> > there.
> > If there's scratch to be made and others have skin in the game then fairs
> > fair but Hennie Penny only pays out as put in.
> > It's unwise to kill the goose what lays the golden eggs.
> > I doubt HT or kin are much too sweat in today's state of things.
> > I'm not even worried about SJ... too much anyway.
> > Hopefully he takes it for the homage that it's meant to be, elseif I figure
> > I'll be hearing from him if I ever manage to create any buzz.
> > My goal is to create something that's worth bothering about on those
> > levels,
> > not screwing somebody outta something that's rightfully theirs.
> > I'm not there yet, but creeping ever closer.
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