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  1. Posted

    29 minutes ago, Tom Sewell said:

    They're six-sided, but instead of ones and sixes they have an additional 3 and 4, so the median result of a single die is still 3.5, but the range of results is narrowed. There's no proof that the dice actually existed outside of the author's imagination, but it was an interesting variation which wouldn't have been too hard to work with regular d6's and some practice.

    I have a set...

     

  4. Posted

    48 minutes ago, K^2 said:

    Non-monetized derivative, using only a small portion of the original material (rules, few characters), that attributes and does not diminish the original work. This is Fair Use under US law.

    No, it's not.  Do you think you can make a game with My Little Pony characters?  Or any thing from Disney?

    Just because you aren't trying to make money off of it doesn't make it fair use. You know what makes if fair use? A judge saying it is. There really isn't a bright line in the copyright laws saying "do this and it's Fair Use". That's why things like the various open source/open gaming licenses exists, to create a virtual bright line.

    The rules aren't the problem, it's the use of his copyrighted characters.  Using some one intellectual property with out their explicit permission is a copyright violation.  At the bottom of the comic page you will find this.

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    All comics, artwork, characters copyright © 2002-2017 by Dan Shive.

    The Dan went out of his way to put that statement in, please respect it.

     

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    Just for the record, in the US you can't copyright the rules to a game, only the expression of those rules, so legally you would be in the clear if you took the rules, as shown in the comic, etc and translated them to either code or a dead tree product or PDF.

    Ethically you would be a skunk if you did that with out The Dan's knowledge and permission.

     

  6. Posted

    Eve's new content "Resource Wars" is freaking hard.  Mine a crapload of stuff while fighting off waves of pirates, in 12 minutes, limited, so far I've seen of 3 people in the "room".

    Not sure if I like it or not, but will be poking it with sticks and seeing about joining a corp to do it in fleets like it should be done.

     

  8. Posted

    I have just verified, while awake, functional and with direct observation that I have at least one mouse.  I sort of thought I did, but had not seen on in good light.

    In a couple of weeks I'm going to be cat sitting (sorta, the cat is coming here) my brother's cat while they paint the house.  Suzi is known to be a mouser, so that should solve that.   Going to get a set of glue traps anyway.