Does anyone know who currently owns the copyrights to the Aliens Adventure Game? A few of my friends and I are attempting to convert the system to GURPS and...
... The publisher; or rather, their successor of interest (from what I understand the involved individuals). ... Unless you copy verbatim from the books, there...
There are several fan versions of Aliens and AvP on the web, which have been out for quite a while, including "FUZION". I also run a MUD (an online multiplayer...
Late I know and still coming so some patience please Seeing him ready to enter , the lifeguards rapped the butts of their polearms to signal the door to open...
... Barry Nakazono and Leading Edge Games still hold copyright on all Leading Edge Games materials. Other copyright holders may be included as well, but that...
Does anybody know the formula to derive the CPT if you already have the Damage Total, Healing Time and the Recovery Roll? I used the formulas that Brian...
According to Jesper Anderson, on 10-06-2005 17:54 the word on the street was... ... In other words, this means that you can basically copy an entire book, as...
... Correct. Copyright covers expressions of ideas, not the ideas themselves. This has been tested in court, and holds in all of the western world (with minor...
Hallo, ... Copyright covers the expression of an idea. Game rules can be restated in other language and used again. A problem crops up when what one creates is...
... They are protected under trademark law. If you have no trademarks, you have no protection. "IP law" is a meaningless phrase, since what it covers is...
Hallo, ... Specific names and places used are protected under trademark law, a subset of IP laws. Thus they are protected under IP laws. Copyright laws are...
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Thanks again guys! I've been showing this topic to my group and we've all agreed that it would be best to simply do a conversion and not attempt to do a ...
It's also worth keeping in mind that many people have already commercially published ripoff works which were never pulled from market. - Chris Jacobson ... ...
... Like the AlienSwarm mod for Unreal Tournament 2004. There is a long history of ALIEN/ALIENS-related gaming mods out there on the net, like the old Fuzion...
For what it's worth, my site for the Boardgame is still up. But it's been at a standstill for so long that Fox probably doesn't even monitor it anymore, if...
... [snip] ... Im most of the way through converting Living Steel to Gurps 4ed, with conversion notes for weapons and armor that more or less preserve the feel...
... Oh ... so not using the vastly superior PCCS tactical resolution system integrated into GURPS? That was what I was hoping for; I was working on it myself...
... Its not at all hard to use PCCS as your combat system. I dont because its excrutiating to use in a PBEM, but the stats, skills, and such all map very...
... Until you factor in all the surrounding skills and advantages/disadvantage, sure. When you do, it becomes a nightmare. And how handle knockout value in a...
... Why not just add a WIL stat for skills tied to it? Hybridizing the two systems should mean you pull from both, not just push one into the framework of the...
... Because then you shoot the point balance to hell, and how do you treat NPC's from the multitude of supplements that have no WIL? ... Not hybridizing; using...
... Ah, thanks! You see, I just got a pile of GURPS stuff for free and some more for cheap and I am interested in raiding as much GURPS goodness to use on LEG...
... Yes, I have piles of GURPS stuff as well. It's stat-heavy, but at least measurements and the like are not in gameterms but in real world terms for the most...
... At US$30+ a book new, and having 250+ supplements, I have stayed well away from GURPS for a long time... but someone who got out of gaming saw fit to gift...