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@Auspice If you do, be prepared for her to tell him everything you said and then the resulting drama on FB. No good deed goes unpunished.

@enoch You didn't say if there was staff alt transparency.

Having watched Gotham and Flash and Arrow and the Avengers movies and SHIELD... I've become rather fond of reimaging. It obviously can work well. Nothing wrong with reimaging Amber as well.

Just wait; the female Dr. Who arrives tomorrow.

@ixokai said in The Eighth Sea - Here There Be Monsters:

What of we gays?

What else?

@buttercup That dog looks like Hitler.

Blame it on a virus.

This is kind of important that should have been included here:

Original Characters
Pure and simple, OCs are not allowed on God and Monsters.

Make it like CoC. You WILL die/go insane. The measure of success is how long you last (or you just hide under your bed too much).

@lithium said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@derp Hate to break it to you, but there hasn't been an evolutionary leap in the past 20 years.

No but it is possible to get better at a skill and multitasking is something that you can improve at. Not going to argue about studies or whether they're correct or not, but speaking from experience, I'm a lot better at multitasking now than I was pre-internet.

I'm also a lot better at judging when not to multi-task.

@aphrodite Also curious...

What's the policy on sexuality? Since you don't allow OCs, and DC has even less LGBT FCs than Marvel does, do you allow switching sexualities for those who prefer to play gay characters?

Ooooh, Planescape. I love that setting. Now that would be the only one I'd really be looking forward to playing.

@auspice Get a mechanic to check it out before you buy it.

Tried it many years ago. Hated it. Definitely not for me.

@ixokai said in A Game of Thrones MUX Discussion:

This isn't entirely clear cut because this is America and anyone can sue anyone for anything, and so I can completely understand why an author might want to come out against fan fiction (or mushes) out of not wanting to deal with court headaches. But to say that this is necessary to protect their rights is what I object to.

This is, in fact, exactly what happened to Mercedes Lackey. I don't know if she gave permission to use her world or just didn't say no but she was sued by a fanfic writer who claimed that Lackey stole ideas from her. Now she expressly forbids any fanfic or Mu* based on her work.

@lithium said in Book Recommendations:

The Thomas Covenant series by Steven R. Donaldson is good too (and one of the many sources that Robert Jordan swiped ideas from)

I happen to like the Thomas Covenant books a lot and read both series (and googling discovers there's a third now). However.

You're either going to like them a lot or absolutely hate them.

I'm enjoying it. My only complaint is it's small. Easily solved if all you people app there.

@faraday said in A Game of Thrones MUX Discussion:

@ixokai said in A Game of Thrones MUX Discussion:

You say, "in fact", yet in fact is more nuanced. You can not sue someone for copyright infringement for ideas. Flat, stop. You can't. You can, with a much harder burden of proof, sue someone for plagiarism That's a more complicated case that has nothing at all to do with copyright..

Worth reading on this account: MZB vs Fanction.

Lawyers were involved, hassle was ensued, and yet, notably, there was no actual lawsuit at all - let alone a case where a fanfiction writer actually won a copyright case against an established author. Even more importantly, the situation could have resulted whether the author had a prohibition against fanfic or not. Because, as @ixokai said, this is America and anybody can try to sue anybody about anything. Whether it will actually hold up or not - that's the question.

Also worth noting that even the claims that the publisher refused to publish the author's novel due to the overlap is in question:

“one of the fans [Lamb] wrote a story, using my world and my characters, that overlapped the setting I was using for my next Darkover novel. Since she had sent me a copy of her fanzine, and I had read it, my publisher will not publish my novel set during that time period, and I am now out several years’ work, as well as the cost of inconvenience of having a lawyer deal with this matter.” [1. I’ve heard claims that DAW killed the project. I’ve also spoken to Betsy Wolheim at DAW, who states that this was Bradley’s decision, not DAW’s.]

Ah, that's right. I was confusing my authors. It was MZB who had the major issues with that. It was Lackey who banned any use of her world based, in part, on the MZB episode (they had the same agent).

A timeline of Lackey's history is here.

Though I see, having looked it up for more specifics, she's since lifted the ban on fanfiction as her agent relented and it's now allowable under the Creative Commons license. Though, wisely, she still won't read it.

@auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

High cholesterol, tho I'm imagining anyone even remotely overweight is in that camp.

Actually, no. Totally possible to have great cholesterol and be overweight so don't think you need to lose weight to get it down.

@rahnevyn So in other words, you can 'win'. Which actually explains a good deal about the game.