Potential For Public Domain Release of the Rules

[Lyndon A Liberty]

This is true, the layout was terrible, and led to, in my humble opinion,
people saying it was a hard game to understand.
If you need help with anything let me know, I like such projects...  <grin>
Lyndon


----- Original Message -----
From: David Jackson <araborn at BELLSOUTH.NET>
To: <POWERS-AND-PERILS at geo000.CiTG.TUDelft.NL>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 19:38 lliberty
Subject: Re: Potential For Public Domain Release of the Rules


> Alright, although I will put my name (and yours) on the revised edition,
> what I envision myself doing is typing up the rules, and re-typesetting
and
> laying out the new version.  A lot of P&P's biggest problems came from a
> very poor layout.
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lyndon Liberty <lliberty at siscom.net>
> To: POWERS-AND-PERILS at geo000.CiTG.TUDelft.NL
> <POWERS-AND-PERILS at geo000.CiTG.TUDelft.NL>
> Date: Thursday, May 06, 1999 05:20 AngryBob
> Subject: Re: Potential For Public Domain Release of the Rules
>
>
> >David.  Go ahead and make the game, put my name on it, I'll take the
fall,
> >if there is one to take.....  I am sick of copyright people, and if they
> >will not listen now, maybe they will then.....   Lyndon Liberty   6765
Deer
> >Ridge Drive, Huber Heights, OH, 45424-1249    lliberty at siscom.net
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: David Jackson <araborn at BELLSOUTH.NET>
> >To: <POWERS-AND-PERILS at geo000.CiTG.TUDelft.NL>
> >Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 10:16 mliberty
> >Subject: Re: Potential For Public Domain Release of the Rules
> >
> >
> >> Perhaps you (and others) don't understand me.
> >>
> >> What I would like to see is P&P revived.  Commercial release is not a
> >viable
> >> option.  I have tried contacting Hasbro in a dozen different ways, with
> >> absolutely no success, in regards to purchasing the rights to P&P.  I
> have
> >> tried contacting them, urging them to release P&P into the public
domain,
> >> with no success.
> >>
> >> The last recourse is to produce an unauthorized / unofficial second
> >edition,
> >> which of course would be derivative of the first edition.  And I am
> >> receiving staunch opposition to that here.
> >>
> >> I guess my dream is of seeing a net version, completely free, of P&P.
A
> >> version that we mold and form.  That we produce monster catalogs,
> treasure
> >> indexes, and campaign worlds for.  But, once again - that is an
> >> impossibility.
> >>
> >> It's just such a shame that I game that I personally love will be lost
to
> >> the annals of history because of the niggling copyright holders.
> >>
> >> David Jackson
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Paul L. Ming <pming at YT.SYMPATICO.CA>
> >>
> >>
> >> >Hiya.
> >> >
> >> >>Yeah, but what about a completely revised version, which is very
> similar
> >> to
> >> >>the original?  (Preserving the original spirit, perhaps even the same
> >> basic
> >> >>mechanics, but revised completely).
> >> >
> >> >    So you wan't a 2nd ed P&P that is "the same but different"?  ;-)
> >What
> >> >it will boil down to is this: "Derivitive Works"  Just ask E. Gary
> >> >Gygax...T$R tried to convince the courts that they (T$R) owned EGG's
> >> >imagination.  The thing was "Because he created AD&D, every other
> fantasy
> >> >RPG he creates will be derived from the same manner of thinking; thus,
a
> >> >derivitive work of AD&D."  Yes, they were on crack, but they also had
> >lots
> >> >of $$$.  The battle never came to a verdict...TSR simply "out monied"
> >him.
> >> >
> >> >    Anyway, with P&P, I think the same sort of thing might be used if
> >> Hasbro
> >> >(they do own P&P now, right?) found out and actually cared.
> >> >
> >> >^_^
> >> >
> >> >Denakhan the Arch-Mage
> >> >
> >>
> >
>