There was also Rackham producing AT-43 and Confrontation. Their IP rights seem to change every few years and nothing substantial gets done. Many of these companies have gone out of business and their IPs are trapped in limbo due to the Berne Convention's idiotic copyright laws.

As I've said, don't copyright your IPs. You're signing a death warrant. If you want your IP to survive and not be ruined by corporate, release it into the public domain. You can still trademark it and derivative works aren't automatically in the public domain, so it's still attractive to publishers if you ever need funding. For comparison, Dracula is in public domain and still gets adapted all the time.

I'm sure this is only a coincidence...

QuoteSo you're telling us that NERDS wouldn't have bought big tiddies space babes?

We are not talking about big tiddy space babes, but about titties devoured by powerful pecks DRR "female" athletic team

QuoteNow riddle me this, how are you going to prevent the same bores (or the satanic panic ones) from spoiling your creation without copyright?

Why would I care? Like people can see easily - faking autorship is still illegal - whether it's mine or not, and if puritans or wokesters want their versions of my setting, then like whatever. Even with copyright they can really spoil whatever they want in vastness of fanfiction, and just because they can legally use world and terms does not make their creation in any way official.

Just like all expanded Cthulhu Mythos is not Lovecraft.

QuoteWhich is MY point, putting your setting in the public domain allows ANYONE to use it in whatever way they so choose, and if they have more money/influence than you outsell you thus supplanting your work from the public conscience.

I find it really doubtful unless your setting was bland vanillia shit to begin with.

QuoteAs I've said, don't copyright your IPs. You're signing a death warrant. If you want your IP to survive and not be ruined by corporate, release it into the public domain. You can still trademark it and derivative works aren't automatically in the public domain, so it's still attractive to publishers if you ever need funding. For comparison, Dracula is in public domain and still gets adapted all the time.

Or maybe copyright it for few years to control birthing spasms of fandom if there will be one?

Quote from: 1stLevelWizard on April 21, 2024, 09:52:25 AMPlanet 28 is pretty good, albeit a bit basic.

How is One Page Rules? That seems to be the thing everybody mentions whenever breaking away from 40k is brought up.

As for BattleTech, that was a great game to get into. Got the starter set, rulebook, and snagged a bunch of mechs off Ebay and Etsy. It quickly became one of my favorite games.

1.  One Page Rules are FREE.  Just download and play.

2.  One Page Rules are simple.   You can remember the rules pretty easy.

3.  The game is model agnostic.  Use what you have, even paper standup drawn by hand or plastic army men. 

4.  The game is very much made with 3D printers in mind.  Go for it.  I'm designing my own Robot Legion models.

5.  The game turn sequence alternates back and forth between both players.  You won't need to sit and watch your opponent move and fight with their entire army for an entire turn. 

We also need new lores too. OPR doesn't have a lot.

I'd like to see more diverse human civilizations too. TSR's old Star*Drive setting has interesting ideas, like cyberpunk commies and niezchean space romans.

Here's a setting and rpg I did a couple years ago:

http://www.uncouthsavage.com/uploads/1/3/3/2/133279619/brffmt.pdf

Here's one that's really just the existing setting with the serial numbers filed off:

http://www.uncouthsavage.com/uploads/1/3/3/2/133279619/brffmt.pdf