[Rq-rules] Sandy's sorcery and the new BRP book

[Nikk Effingham]

Legalities aside, you'd have to be a bit dumb to buy it given it's freely
available. Stuff like this always pops up on ebay ('CD contains 500 RUNEQUEST
CULTS!!!' - yeah, 500 cults downloaded off of 500 sites) so, legal or
otherwise, one would imagine it would lack popularity and be sold only to
chumps - so perhaps nothing to get too concerned about. I'm not accountant but
my guess would be that in this hobby, if you were interested enough to want it,
you'd be interested enough to know where to get it free.

Nikk

> Have to say that seems a bit harsh, that particular set of rules is pretty
> much synonomous with Sandy Peterson, it would be a bit unfair if anybody
> could blag them off and sell them without showing Mr Peterson the colour of
> their money. Ah well, life isn't fair I suppose.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Clive
>
>  -- Original Message -----
>   From: Wayne Shaw
>   To: Discussion of RuneQuest rules.
>   Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 6:25 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Rq-rules] Sandy's sorcery and the new BRP book
>
>
>   At 06:59 AM 8/26/2007, you wrote:
>
>     A while back there was a brief discussion about whether you can copyright
> a game system ( the answer seeming to be you can't ). Now, whats to stop
> someone taking Sandy Petersons sorcery system ripping out all the Gloranthan
> references and selling it as a PDF download for the new BRP system or as part
> of the GORE system ( which basically IS the BRP system )  ?
>
>     Does the fact that everybody calls it 'Sandy's sorcery' give him
> copyright dibs ? Before you ask, no I don't intend to do this I'm just
> curious.
>
>   There isn't much, honestly.  You might have  to change some phrasiology,
> but that's likely about it.
>
>
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