Steven Trustrum wrote: >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:<br><br> ><font face="Verdana">"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."<br><br> ></font>
The mind boggles. It's fairly common knowledge that WotC maintains a library of the entire RPG industry. And accusing Monte Cook, Sean K Reynolds, and Jonathon Tweet of ripping off rule designs is absurd to a laughable degree. Not to mention the inherent hypocrisy of Palladium. >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 (no worries, guys and gals, this isn't a >witch hunt for plagiarism, I'm merely curious All the time. The number one source of new ideas is brainstorming off existing ideas. Justin Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
