Quote from: RPGPundit;1048407I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have any actual legal right to stop an actual play video.

You may want to have a look at their website and their policies. They are claiming some very interesting things in relation to IP.

Quote from: AsenRG;1048422Of course they don't:).

I'm pretty sure he just doesn't want to spend money to prove them this simple fact. Why should he;)?

Agreed. I've already had one round of legal expenses, with an outfit called "Five Empires Publishing", and I have other uses for my time, energy, and money.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1048749Well, if they did try to sue him, he could always do a fundraiser to pay his legal fees, bankrupt them, and then take control of their assets.

I'd litigate in defense of my copyrights, such as for my miniatures rules, but that's pretty much it; I have no dog in the fight, as it were. The Tekumel Foundation has no real assets, and any litigation such as is being discussed would be to protect rights as there is nothing to pay any legal fees with. Additional litigation and funding would be required to enforce any judgements re legal fees, as these would have to come from the individual directors of the corporation.

As might be guessed, I am not a lawyer, but I have had some small experience with this sort of thing in the past.

Quote from: AsenRG;1048853.

You're free to try persuading Chirine, of course:). It's not up to me either way.

And I don't particularly care, at this point. The Foundation doesn't even police their own contractual rights; there's an e-bay seller who routinely sells stuff that uses copyrighted Tekumel materials, and they've been in business now for a couple of years with no action by the TF. Not my problem, and I have no dog in the fight.

Quote from: chirine ba kal;1048917And I don't particularly care, at this point. The Foundation doesn't even police their own contractual rights; there's an e-bay seller who routinely sells stuff that uses copyrighted Tekumel materials, and they've been in business now for a couple of years with no action by the TF. Not my problem, and I have no dog in the fight.

That's a smart move, Uncle, at least IMO:).

And something that I suspect would warm your heart...
My daughter recently played her first session, which her mother Refereed. She's playing a Princess, of course, and we're her friends accompanying her on a quest to find a lost treasure! (She's literally the Nobleman's Wild Daughter, I'm her best friend Village Hero she grew up with, and her aunt is the local witch's apprentice:p!)
But that's not the part I think you'd like the most.
The daughter totally refused to start playing until and unless we provided her with a miniature to represent her character:D!
So she got a paper miniature, because all of us were able to help preparing that (and we've got a printer at home).
Then she demanded we should also have miniatures for our characters.
We took some of her dolls. I'm some kind of bug-man, and her aunt is some Disney princess I can't identify;).
Miniatures are alive with the new generation:D! And even Theater of the Mind people like me and her mother bow to the demands of the New Generation!

That's about it;).

Quote from: AsenRG;1048967That's a smart move, Uncle, at least IMO:).

And something that I suspect would warm your heart...
My daughter recently played her first session, which her mother Refereed. She's playing a Princess, of course, and we're her friends accompanying her on a quest to find a lost treasure! (She's literally the Nobleman's Wild Daughter, I'm her best friend Village Hero she grew up with, and her aunt is the local witch's apprentice:p!)
But that's not the part I think you'd like the most.
The daughter totally refused to start playing until and unless we provided her with a miniature to represent her character:D!
So she got a paper miniature, because all of us were able to help preparing that (and we've got a printer at home).
Then she demanded we should also have miniatures for our characters.
We took some of her dolls. I'm some kind of bug-man, and her aunt is some Disney princess I can't identify;).
Miniatures are alive with the new generation:D! And even Theater of the Mind people like me and her mother bow to the demands of the New Generation!

That's about it;).

Thanks. It's just not my issue, I think.

Wonderful!!! Simply wonderful!!! Your daughter is a person of exquisite taste and refinement, truly able to appreciate the finer things in life!!!

What does a zrne nest look like? A wolves den? Giant hornets nest? Are they constructed above ground? Dug into the ground? How easy are they to spot?

Quote from: Big Andy;1049047What does a zrne nest look like? A wolves den? Giant hornets nest? Are they constructed above ground? Dug into the ground? How easy are they to spot?

Like a wolves den, or at least that's what we saw anyway, and dug into the ground. This was mostly out in the open countryside, if that's any help. Usually not all that easy to spot, unless you're Origo and keep falling into the holes.

Photos up on the blog of today's game session. I thought that it was particularly interesting that the players and GM seemed to have no problems with the 3D aspect of the medium, and used the depth changes pretty cleverly in combat.

Not that it helped, really; ended on a real cliff-hanger, so we're back in Atlantis in three weeks.

Quote from: chirine ba kal;1049097Photos up on the blog of today's game session. I thought that it was particularly interesting that the players and GM seemed to have no problems with the 3D aspect of the medium, and used the depth changes pretty cleverly in combat.

Not that it helped, really; ended on a real cliff-hanger, so we're back in Atlantis in three weeks.

Awesome creature and battle.

I look forward to the next posts.

Question about Avanthar and Bey Su and how best to call them.

Bey Su is where the rulers of the empire of the Petal Throne reside. So, one couldn't say that Avanthar is the "administrative capital" of the empire. Bey Su would be.
So what's Avanthar then? The political capital? The economic capital? Something else?

I understood that Bey Su is the economic capital but Avanthar is where the current Emperor resides with the Court of the Purple Robes forming the political/ceremonial capital.
Bey Su is where the Choosing of an Emperor occurs but once that happens they are immured in  the tower at Avanthar.

This is what I get from reading the S&G Sourcebook and several of the available netbooks

Quote from: chirine ba kal;1048977Thanks. It's just not my issue, I think.

Wonderful!!! Simply wonderful!!! Your daughter is a person of exquisite taste and refinement, truly able to appreciate the finer things in life!!!

I let her know, Uncle:).

Quote from: chirine ba kal;1049097Photos up on the blog of today's game session. I thought that it was particularly interesting that the players and GM seemed to have no problems with the 3D aspect of the medium, and used the depth changes pretty cleverly in combat.

Not that it helped, really; ended on a real cliff-hanger, so we're back in Atlantis in three weeks.

When you get them to stop thinking in terms of squares, thinking in 3D is actually natural, IME;).

Quote from: Neshm hiKumala;1049170Awesome creature and battle.

I look forward to the next posts.

Thank you! I liked the Reaper Kraken a lot more once we got it out of the box, and I may just have to get one for myself. A Kraken seems to feature in a lot of their games, so I was delighted to be able to point this one out to them.

So do I; seven of the party are trapped with little or no hope of escape in the Maelstrom, and the three Rogues who are not in the whirlpool are going to have to Think Of Something pretty durn quickly. And I did find the Healer some of the nacho cheese crackers that she wanted, so there's hope yet. (My briefcase is being referred to as "Mary Poppins' bag - of holding".

Quote from: Neshm hiKumala;1049171Question about Avanthar and Bey Su and how best to call them.

Bey Su is where the rulers of the empire of the Petal Throne reside. So, one couldn't say that Avanthar is the "administrative capital" of the empire. Bey Su would be.
So what's Avanthar then? The political capital? The economic capital? Something else?

Bey Sy runs the Imperium; Avanthar controls it. The routine stuff is all dealt with by the Palaces in Bey Sy, with matters being referred to Avanthar as needed for Imperial decisions. The Kolumel and the Petal Throne are in Avanthar, so the current incumbent is there. The rest of the clan is all over the place, and a lot of them hold down offices in Bey Sy.