On 20 Aug 2002, Steven scribbled a note about [Ogf-l] Non-d20 Inspiration:
>Maryann Siembieda recently said this on the company's message >boards during a thread where claims were made that WotC stole >ideas, including core elements to their system, from Palladium >Books: >"Actually I can support it as I've been told by >nameless people who use to work for Hasbro that >they have copies of all of our products sitting on a >shelf in their production offices and that they are >referred to often." ROFLMOA If anything, d20 has more to do with Rolemaster (an ealier version, not the current version) than Palladium. I know that even one distributor actually referred to d20 as RM lite at one point in conversation with ICE. Maryann and Kevin Siembieda are well known through the industry as being extremely predatory when it comes to their copyrights. A few years ago, when asking about publishing fan articles for a free e-zine, we were told that they had to approve everything because all fan articles belonged to them. Needless to say, we never accepted any Palladium articles. Besides ideas are not copyrightable, only the expression of those ideas (which is a core concept behind the OGL). So even if it is true, there is not much they can really do. >Now, out of a sense of professional curiosity, how many people >here look to other rpg systems or settings, or fiction for >inspiration when it comes to their writing Of course! I look at other rpgs, at novels, at television, at movies, at real life, and myths and fables. I get inspriation from anywhere and everywhere. It is the nature of writing (even if you do not realize it or do it consciously) that you draw inspiration from everything around you. TANSTAAFL Rasyr (Tim Dugger) System Editor Iron Crown Enterprises E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
