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400_years

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  1. And just for the record, I'm not trying to challenge the legality of anything anyone is doing or rain on the parade in anyway. I'm as anxious to see the drools rules as everyone else. I was just making a pedantic response to an earlier comment.
  2. I don't know about the law in the EU (and I don't really know about the law in the US, not being a lawyer), but at one point you could also apparently get a patent on a game in England. Here's the patent for Cluedo. Whether that's still possible or how common that was in other European countries is not something I can say.
  3. Actually, you can patent game rules. They're considered an invention. Check out US patent number 6,017,034 which is a patent relating to collectible card games. Fortunately, most rpg publishers have not pursued patents for their games, meaning all you have to deal with is copyright (and you can't copyright game rules, just their artistic expression). Apparently, there's so much in-breeding of ideas in RPGs that it would be fairly hard to patent most conventional RPG "technology" now. And I am not a lawyer, so take all that accordingly.
  4. Apologies if this is old news but I thought I would de-lurk for a moment to point your attention to something interesting in light of the recent Magic monograph. Two more familiar tidbits published as monographs... Basic Roleplaying Creatures Book Chaosium Inc. Basic Roleplaying Gamemasters Book Chaosium Inc.
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