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Parallel Fiction
iago:
--- Quote from: KnightKD on June 13, 2006, 09:15:25 PM ---Hypothetical questions of an important nature:
If I were going to run a play by post or instant message based roleplaying game somewhere online, using the Dresden world would it be legal to do so?
How about using the characters from the books?
This has become somewhat of a grey question and I'm sincerely hoping it can be answered with a simple yes or no and put to rest.
Thanks for any help.
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Your best bet would be to ask the question more directly to the Butchers. Try hitting this web address with your question: http://www.jim-butcher.com/feedback/
Mickey Finn:
Also, in case you didn't know, there will be a MUSH based off the game system. This doesn't preclude you doing your own game, if the Butcher's approve, but it's something you can play later, when it goes online. :)
taralon:
I don't see the whole 'anthology while the series is being written' would be too much of an issue. After all Eric Flint is basically doing this with the 163x series and the Grantville Gazette anthologies.
What it requires is that the author retain absolute editorial control over the anthology. It also requires that the stories contain at best side characters with only mentions of the main characters, and either be only fringely associated with events in the mainline series or not at all.
It is done, and has been done many a time. Witchworld is one. Grantville Gazette is another. The Friends of Darkover series were for a short time a third.
Its just not done that often, mainly because most writers don't want the hassle, and would rather be writing themselves, rather than editing...
rdonoghue:
Legal Shmegal. I dream of a wolrd where Jim has that kind of _time_. :)
-Rob D.
The Last Bean:
Heh, while I'm all for the "Star Trek" style "let people write whatever they want but don't make it all canon" thing... I submit the following as an example of how horribly, horribly wrong that can go.
Star Trek meets X-Men
The very concept makes me shudder. Granted I haven't read it, but just ick... And do we really want "Harry and Harry: Dresden teaches at Hogwarts" or "The Wizard at the End of the Universe: Harry Dresden meets Marvin the Paranoid Android"... scary ideas.
On a related note, KnightKD, did you ever get a response from the Butchers about your question? I'm actually pretty curious myself, since any game run using the new system would technically be fiction set in the Dresden universe.
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