http://community.gencon.com/forums/thread/89722.aspx

ok seriously...WHAT?  Not that i'm going to GenCon, but still...HUH?

Okay, that's just fucked up.  Right now, neither Gen Con nor Chaosium is looking very good for this.

Strange.  I'm sure we'll find out sooner or later, but I wonder if some money is owed?  Or perhaps someone's angling for a deal?

Hmm.  Don't play CoC, really, but I like to see as many tabletop games as possible at GC.

Okay, that's just retarded.

Huh.  

I wonder what this means.

It's not really Call of cthulhu that's the issue, from what it says. It's pretty clear it says that Chaosium has to work out something with GenCon LLC.

What the fucking hell kind of asinine shit is this?

Since when can they dictate how their game gets used by the consumer?

I seem to recall this sort of attitude not going over well when WW tried to charge for playing MET . . .

This is just bullshit. When you buy a game prodct you own it and can use it, and that measn running it at a convention.

Chaosium has zero fucking right to any say in it period. Any lawyer filing a lawsuit on a motion like this should have a shaker full of salt poured on him and be left to boil up and die in agony.

What next? I can't drive a japansese made car to a "remember pearl harbor" rally because the japanese company forbids it?

This is just another example of how right shakespeare was when he said "kill all the lawyers".....

I suppose now SJG will think it can bar me from running furps games featuring unflattering portrayals of some of the jerks working at it next, like I did last year and plan to do this year.


Pundy should do a screed about this, if he could ever get off his tired old tirades against "lawncrappers", "swine" and anyone who doesn't think that d20 is the only fucking system to use in rpg's....

Not that I'd read it, but he should still do a screed about lawyers and legalistic bullshit harming gaming.

Quote from: Dominus NoxThis is just bullshit. When you buy a game prodct you own it and can use it, and that measn running it at a convention.

Chaosium has zero fucking right to any say in it period. Any lawyer filing a lawsuit on a motion like this should have a shaker full of salt poured on him and be left to boil up and die in agony.

Yes, but they're very carefully _not_ saying that it's Chaosium's fault or Gen Con's fault - but at the moment the people running GenCon are not accepting Chaosium games.  You can certainly sit down at a table and run the game anywhere you want, but if the person or people in charge of the place where you're playing forbids it, there's not much you can do about it.

This is the dumbest bullshit I've ever seen in my life.

Whichever side (Gencon or Chaosium) is responsible for this deserves a kick in the nuts with a steel-toed boot.  What a bunch of assholes.

This is, again, evidence that Chaosium is run by the largest gang of retards in the RPG world... they are the keystone cops of roleplaying.  

There are few Gaming companies which make you, in contrast, look at Kevin Siembieda and say "wow, that guy has really got his shit together, and is not an overly-litigious looney".

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Quote from: jgantsThis is the dumbest bullshit I've ever seen in my life.

Whichever side (Gencon or Chaosium) is responsible for this deserves a kick in the nuts with a steel-toed boot.  What a bunch of assholes.

Can we get some "AMENS!" for this?

Quote from: RPGPunditThis is, again, evidence that Chaosium is run by the largest gang of retards in the RPG world... they are the keystone cops of roleplaying.  

There are few Gaming companies which make you, in contrast, look at Kevin Siembieda and say "wow, that guy has really got his shit together, and is not an overly-litigious looney".

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ACK! Arrgggg...quick, gotta...get the....nitro tablets.....(GULP GULP!)

Whew! Another major coronary narrowly averted....

As much as it sickens me to, I have to agree with pundit here again. (Hot bath time to wash away the unclean feeling later.)

Chaosium USED to have a LINE of great games, like Ringworld, Elfquest, CoC, Hawkmoon, stormbringer, etc. They USED to make a LOT of great game stuff for various genres, but for some reason that I guess only chaosium and maybe George W. Bush could understand, they've decided to piss it all away and just become the call of cthulhu game company.

That's not only stupid, it's tragic because they were a top quality outfit back in the 80's and could still be doing a great set of lines for various games. My god, what I wouldn't have given to see THEM doing some games based on great booklines, like Hammer's Slammers, Honor Hannrington, etc.

But they obviously wanna be the CoC game company, nothing more. Maybe Fungi from Yuggoth came in the night and took their brains away in cans, at least then their behavior would be understandable.

You know how Hasbro/WotC sold the rights to produce D&D computer games and then realised later that this impacted on their rights to produce a character design program (or even to allow one to be produced) and (allegedly) there had to be some serious limits to what they could eventually allow

I'm wondering if it could be a licensing problem.  But if Cuthulucon is still on and Shoggoth.net are still going to be at Origins then I can't imagine what it can be

No, its not a licensing problem; Chaosium basically took care of those quite a few years ago by proving that no one actually had the rights to the majority of the Cthulhu Mythos.

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