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Bilharzia · May 17, 2015, 08:31:38 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;831973So I suppose you think that a huge chunk of the OSR is 'underhanded' too?

It's not the case that Call of Cthulhu needs a revival, it's the core of Chaosium, who have never released the system, or BRP under OGL or CC as far as I'm aware, I don't think it's comparable. It just does not seem like a good idea to leave it so unclear, if you can't tell the difference it might suggest it's creating confusion either deliberately or through negligence.

Bilharzia · May 17, 2015, 08:42:20 AM

Quote from: tzunder;831976It's all quite achievable using the OGL/SRD from Legend or OpenQuest or Renaissance or Mongoose SRD. They just need to list all the different publications in their OGL statement at the back and they're good to go.

I'd say reference ALL of those and you're fine.

And CoC?

RPGPundit · May 19, 2015, 06:08:46 AM

Quote from: Bilharzia;831994It's not the case that Call of Cthulhu needs a revival, it's the core of Chaosium, who have never released the system, or BRP under OGL or CC as far as I'm aware, I don't think it's comparable. It just does not seem like a good idea to leave it so unclear, if you can't tell the difference it might suggest it's creating confusion either deliberately or through negligence.

I don't see what "confusion" you're concerned with. It's not advertised as a Chaosium product, or licensed by Chaosium, or anything like that.

It's using an open set of rules, but even if it wasn't, game rules can't be copyrighted. It feels to me like you're the one with some sort of unjustified beef here.

Bilharzia · May 19, 2015, 09:46:14 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;830439I was involved as a consultant. It has all the potential of being a really great CoC variant.

Quote from: RPGPundit;832277I don't see what "confusion" you're concerned with. It's not advertised as a Chaosium product, or licensed by Chaosium, or anything like that.

Well, I think it was advertised as *something* like that, at least, you seemed to think so!

Brad · May 19, 2015, 12:13:00 PM

My beef is that it's Yet Another Delayed Kickstarter...

jcfiala · May 19, 2015, 01:16:16 PM

Quote from: Brad;832312My beef is that it's Yet Another Delayed Kickstarter...

Yeah... I like a few of the hints of the book we've seen, but it's pretty disappointing how it's gone.

Snowman0147 · May 19, 2015, 03:13:46 PM

Quote from: Brad;832312My beef is that it's Yet Another Delayed Kickstarter...

That is a good beef to be had.

RPGPundit · May 21, 2015, 07:52:30 AM

Quote from: Brad;832312My beef is that it's Yet Another Delayed Kickstarter...

See, this here? It's a totally legitimate beef.