Interesting D6 news

Grimace · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:02 am Post subject: Interesting D6 news

I'm not sure where to put this, but I figured that some of you might be interested in this. It has been pre-announced that West End Games will be making the D6 system available for people to use for FREE. They haven't made an official announcement yet, but you can find the unofficial announcement here http://www.westendgames.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2734.

hisham · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:12 am Post subject:

Wow. That sounds interesting. A plan begins to form.
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Doomhead · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:17 pm Post subject:

Can you say frickin AWESOME!!!

I for one can't wait....
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Ankhanu · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject:

Mogul76 · Ensign Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 28 Location: Switzerland

Yep. Excellent news indeed. I wonder if a group of people cares to start writing the 3rd edition of the Star Wars Roleplaying Game Rolling Eyes

Ankhanu · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject:

The d6 license isn't the issues with that one... it's the Star Wars license that's gonna be the issue Razz

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cheshire · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject:

It's at Lucasfilm's digression. To date, they've been very tolerant of fan productions and fanfic. However, if they want to issue you a C&D, that is perfectly within their rights.

Darth Ginzain · Lieutenant Joined: 25 Oct 2007 Posts: 77

Amarillo Design Bureau has a game they're adapting to d6. They wrote it using the gurps system then adapted it to d20. Now with d6 free to us they're adapting it for d6. I'm looking forward to this game. http://www.starfleetgames.com/pdindex.shtml

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Ray · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:23 am Post subject:

It is. It's called "An example of things that are being done with D6 now." Razz

Hard part will be getting permission to put out a LEGAL, able to sell new version of Star Wars D6.

*Sigh* Stupid WotC, using Star Wars as a Test Bed. Crying or Very sad

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Ankhanu · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject:

Giving it away for free can impact official sales. Either way you slice it, Star Wars is copyrighted material. It's up to the copyright holder to decide when they've been infringed and what they want to do about it. For the most part, LucasArts/LucasFilm has been pretty lenient about fan made Star Wars stuff; but something like a widely available roleplaying product to infringe upon the sales of the official material might get their attention a little quicker.

I'd still work on it, mind you Wink

But there could be problems.
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Expendable Hero · Ensign Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 41

If your really worried about it why not try and get a group together and ask Lucas Arts for permission to make an official fan site using the now free d6 at least then you'll be covered. Or you can always go with the old saying its easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

Ankhanu · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 6:33 pm Post subject:

The old saying is more my style in something like this Wink

While Lucas may allow it, the current license holder... probably wouldn't.
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