Disney buys Lucasfilm and promises 3 more Star Wars movies!

DougRed4 · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 12:18 pm Post subject:

Oh, and the Christian gaming groups aren't "forming"; rather they have been around for over a decade (probably more like 15 years).
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Draven · Sub-Lieutenant Joined: 14 Mar 2013 Posts: 69

I never said their ruling was a good one. I think Roleplaying is a great hobby that helps make people more creative. I said and rather correctly that the ruling was based on a bias understanding of roleplaying. A legal ruling based on the facts that someone does not understand the game is one based on bias of what they heard or think of the game. Thus showing that some people still have bad feelings about table top roleplaying. The problems with roleplaying were always based on it was occult or gang like activety controled by the game master. Thus the ruling was based on those understandings.

Now this does not show or even indicate that there is a bias againist roleplaying every where in America just that it is still alive in places.
I am however curious based on what evidence you think Disney will continue a table top roleplaying line for any of there products (even ones without the Disney name directly attached)? I could be wrong but I do not believe that any product Disney owns under any company name has a table top roleplaying game out for it. If anyone knows of one please direct me to where I can find information on it.

cheshire · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:51 am Post subject:

In the end this probably isn't of all that great a consequence for D6 gamers. Since the license has gone to FFG, it seems unlikely that we'll be receiving any new D6 products. I've been following the course of the EotE beta, and it doesn't sound like it will be easily converted into a D6 product. Should EotE die a terrible death or that FFG will find their license not renewed at the end of their five or ten year cycle, I doubt that it has much impact on us.

Many stopped caring once the RPG license went to WotC. A few of us stuck it out and converted the stats from d20 to D6, but even then we didn't exactly have a unanimous response from the community.

In the end, I'm going to guess either way the SW D6 community will see it's numbers continue to rise and fall as a niche within a niche within a niche.
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Draven · Sub-Lieutenant Joined: 14 Mar 2013 Posts: 69

That is true hope they do not get like Palladium books with their product rights though

cheshire · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:10 pm Post subject:

And start restricting online communities, fan projects, etc?
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DougRed4 · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:58 pm Post subject:

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I can kinda see how RPGing might not be that great an idea in a prison environment.Not due to "evil" or "Occult" reasons but for social, and secruity reasons.

Social in terms that we've all probably gamed with someone who'se taken events in a game too personally. Some guys in jail might knife the GM to get back at what he did to thier character. Yeah, it's stupid, and most probably wouldn't, but one nut-case it all it takes.

Security in terms of the ability to pass information in a sort of secret code (RPGspeak), coordinate actions, and so on. All it takes it one "jailbreak" adventure to make the guards paranoid.

And I think Cheshire is right about the change in ownership having little direct effect on D6 Star Wars. The odds of any more official D6 SW products ever appearing are only slightly better than my chances with a supermodel. Disney can't do much about our playing an officially licensed game that we all paid for, and they would be stupid to try. About the only effect they really have on us will be in affecting the fan base with the quality (or lack thereof) of any new films.

cheshire · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:21 pm Post subject:

Of course IF they did decide to make a move on cracking down on the whole hobby, they could have means of doing so, but it seems like an awful lot of trouble to shut down such a juggernaut at this stage. Particularly when D6 programs and software (whenever they were produced) kinda got a free pass from WotC and LFL. Assuming they even made enough waves to get noticed.
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Draven · Sub-Lieutenant Joined: 14 Mar 2013 Posts: 69

That is true they may not have made enough waves to get noticed. As well they may be so small now to continue to go unnoticed. I would say there is no chance as all of seeing new offical d6 rpg material for Star Wars. There is no D6 company that I know of that could aford the liscense. What I hope is they do not crack down on the fan made material you can get on this site and a few other sites. I would think there will be little to know attempt till they release their movie. But I wonder how they will look on converstions of the new movies if they are any good.

I agree we have to disagree on the ruling. Does not change the fact that much of the bias towards roleplaying is that the Game Master can supposedly get other players to do criminal acts that he wants them to do. The court ruled that was the case so hard to say their ruling was not based on that old bias.

Yes I could see where roleplaying would be something that made the guards a little worried. Like you said one prison break game would be all it took to do it in some cases. I have personally never had a player take anything in the game personally. In that I understand that I am a rather rare case there as well.

lurker · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:02 am Post subject:

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cheshire · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:33 am Post subject:

DougRed4 · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 3:51 pm Post subject:

Good points on the way RPGs can end up causing players to take things personally. Reminds me of a squabble between my brother and I (both teens) from a Gamma World game. We were in a fight (over equipment) in the game that spilled over into real life, until my dad warned us that if we couldn't work it out the game was over with.

It's easy to forget that (even adult) prisoners often have the emotional maturity of young people. Fights can happen over even the smallest things, and you're right that gambling is not allowed at all (we allow them to wager pushups, but that's it).

So yeah, while I generally don't like the ruling, I kind of get both sides of the argument, and there are some elements of RPGs - great as they are for passing the time and encouraging creativity and other positives - that could be problematic for detention institutions.
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Dromdarr_Alark · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:23 pm Post subject:

My goodness. This thread went a bit off-topic.

Is there any more news on the Disney ordeal? Do you think they'll put up production videos as they go along, like Peter Jackson did with the Hobbit?

That would be cool. They probably will not though, because it could give things away.

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