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So, Wizards of the Coast is suing TSR again.
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(It should be noted that this isn't the classic TSR that created D&D and several other RPGs, this is the 'new' TSR founded last year by Gary Gygax's son.)
Zita
I love it when my enemies fight
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NuTSR is trying to launch a new edition of Star Frontiers, an updated version of the old Star Frontiers game that never quite caught on outside of a few small circles, with a lot of content being recycled for Spelljammer.
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WotC says they own Star Frontiers because they own all TSR properties. NuTSR says that Wizards let the trademark lapse 'sometime' during the 2000s.
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WotC is also suing them because the new Star Frontiers has some pretty questionable stuff in it that would reflect poorly on them. Wizards says that people would think they publish the game, and that releasing it would damage their information.
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(Questionable things include a Negro subrace with "tall, thick bodied, dark skinned even purple dark, brown-eyed race with large strength, average intelligence" and a max intelligence of 9. and a Nordic subrace described as "Tall, blonde, blue-eyed race with exceptional attributes and powers" with minimal stats of 13 in any category.)
塔露拉·雅特利亞斯
yeah it's less "questionable" and more "that is literally racism my dudes"
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Also explicitly describes Africans, Asians, and Mexicans as "subraces".
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To quote, "races in SFNG are not unlike races in the real world. Some are better at certain things than others, and some races are superior than others."
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And asks if the player is a "SJW warrior pushing your values on others"
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https://images.plurk.com/1ECGyWX2hrNO7VHCbLl2sE.png
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https://images.plurk.com/40itnvIQrYjUhRiyGDEE40.png
塔露拉·雅特利亞斯
there's a pretty good breakdown of the whole thing i saw earlier in the week here
Shard
...It's know it alls.
塔露拉·雅特利亞斯
someone in the comments there points out my stance on the whole thing, which is "this might be the only time i've ever found myself rooting for the big name to murder the little guy in court over anything"
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Also, explicitly no trans folks in the Star Frontiers universe, but a writer had a question about adding "transbots" as a race.
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This is on top of NuTSR's lawuit, which, as far as I know, is still ongoing, seeking the rights to TSR properties that Wizards has 'abandoned' and to force Wizards to remove the disclaimer they added to all old D&D properties.
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Y'know.
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Hyatt
*Y'no
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Yes, my bad.
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They say that the disclaimer says that all of TSR's old creative teams were racist, sexist bigots and that's not fair.
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(And it's true, not all of them were, but that doesn't change that a goodly chunk of old TSR products have a lot of unfortunate things baked into them and it's easier to go "Some of these products contain material that don't reflect our current values" on everything than to hunt down each and every example.)
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Honestly, with 塔露拉·雅特利亞斯 's link, you'd think that https://images.plurk.com/2uvCxU3TIKfQUfZN95kU6R.png would just stomp all over TSR's arguments.
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Not... sure how I feel about this, though.
https://images.plurk.com/7Gy8t3YZSl7lNUFaTATLLz.png
They own it, and it's one thing to update newer material to reflect current values, but changing older stuff instead of just going "Look, this was made in a different time and doesn't match our current values" feels off.
塔露拉·雅特利亞斯
i mean, by all evidence, it does, it's just that TSR refuses to stop daring WotC to prove it in court
塔露拉·雅特利亞斯
er, nuTSR
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But I haven't heard about these changes before, and WotC would make a big deal about these updates to better market older material, so maybe the lawsuit's just phrasing it weird.
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https://images.plurk.com/37KSohU8MZrl5xiqnh3qpQ.png
Hyatt
today is a weird day. I'm also siding with Disney if they use heavy copyright enforcement to shut down certain fan-made remixes of The Little Mermaid trailer
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We've known for years that the live-action remake would have a black Ariel, you'd think that'd be enough time for acceptance to sink in. Guess not.
Hyatt
their acceptance comes in the form of deepfaking her into a white girl
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Of course.
Nox
Good luck to NuTSR in convincing the court that thr trademark lapsed somewhere in the 2000s, but not...providing an actual date
Nox
big "source: trust me, bro" energy with that claim
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