| From: | DANIEL WAISLEY <LGLUMKA@***.BITNET> |
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| Subject: | Copyright, SR II books, and The deck. |
| Date: | Mon, 5 Apr 93 21:37:22 CET |
First the easy part - each person owns their characters.
The FAQ says this basically - you don't use someone elses character without
permission.
The hard part - what about adventures easy to hard
the flailed rescue of Highlander - IMHO would be owned by myself
as the writer, and those people whose characters I used
The successful rescue - same Idea- cept I have no part
The problem - the stuff in between with everyone looking
and trying to help out.
Both together - anyone who was really involved - including the
guy who compiled the ships in the harbor - gets a piece of the action.
They might not write the story but they own the characters.
The hard one - MONICA and Core Wars.
Robert owns Monica, Rufus, Howe, Yoshida, and SPlut (RIP)
along with others.
Robert I believe would also own the freeing of Rufus and
betrayal of Monica ( have to check the logs on this).
Robert would not own the multitude of parts in MagnaTech involving
DE and everybody under the sun. - their characters appeared it was
partly theirs
So what we have is a basicly unanswerable question about owner
ship of complex adventures. my opinion - don't both - its just
to hot a topic chummer.
SR II book hardcover.
I have heard that you can get a hardcover still (possibly)
if you are a member of KA-GE (thanks Rin).
I also know of one left at Patty's paperbacks in Indiana Pa.
I will look into C.O.D for sending it. Robert has first dibs
(please speak up if you are still interested)
it will be full price plus cost of shipping (i'm a very poor college
student)
The deck
Well I'm not even going to touch this topic much for fears
of flames.
What this brought to my attention is a not so small descrepency
in response for decks
Response is MPCP/4 (round down) BUT......
the Decker (pg 51) and the elven decker (pg 54)
both have Fuchi Cyber - 4 (with response increase 2)
now a Fuchi 4 has a MPCP of 6
now since what ever grade 6/4 = 1.5 rounded down to 1
so it should be a one by MPCP/4
BUT......
if you do MPCP / 3 rounded down
one would get 6/3 = 2 no rounding
Now the errata never fixed either of these things to my knowledge
(other wise I would have writen them in)
So there is a mistake one way or the other.
Now as to the response 4 on the deck with a 15 mpcp
well it would work with the MPCP/3 (it could be a 5)
And the GM let you have a 4 response
but not the MPCP/4 (still be 3 (wow do I love math spu's))
Nightfox
probably just wrote what everyone else
has been thinking but figured everyone
already knew so they didn't bother to
write it.
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Daniel Waisley Lglumka@***.grove.iup.edu --------(-- IUP FENCING
SCA - Shire of Robledol, Households - Cryptic Demesne (fencing) + Brotherhood
of Agincourt (archery),
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sorry for any bad grammer or spelling, etc. My mind works at 637
thoughts per minute, and my hands at 1.2 letters per second
