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Future Plans - Licensing?

For clarity... I only care about making a living right now. Yes, my work was misused, and yes I resent how I was treated. But mostly I just want to get paid for the work I did. Or even just get some part of what I'm owed.

Imagine finding out you've worked for nothing for 18 months. Trivialities like resentment matter a lot less than financial reality.

I have no intentions of holding material hostage or whatever. It's just that I did the work, QLI made money on it, and I got to suffer the consquences of not getting paid for the work I did.
 
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Money (or the donation of it) doesn't seem to be a solution, here. There seems to be a lot of hurt on both sides based on the use/misuse of an artist's work. The pain isn't going away and I am afraid that a great product (SF20) is being held in limbo until the issue is fixed. I think there is a lot of betrayal here.

Just so we're clear... if anything regarding SF20 or T20 is being held in limbo, then I'm not aware of it. Nobody has discussed this with me and I don't imagine anyone would. There may be reasons why this is all stalled, but it's nothing whatsoever to do with me.

I have no information about SF20, other than that it illegally reused my work. I don't know if anyone else even cares about that - I don't recall discussing SF20 with anyone in fact, not until now.

Sorry about that. It was just my expression of frustration.
 
Adventures

So are there no reps from FFE here to address this? Does it feel like the T20 CD might be forgotten about with T5 coming out? Which is disheartening because issues with the rulebooks aside, I was interested in the adventures mostly. The ones I missed buying because of low cashflow at the time. Specifically:

Chimera
EPIC Adventure #3

Merchant Cruiser
EPIC Adventure #4

The Guilded Lilly
Virus Redux EPIC 1
 
Actually got this response from Mr. Miller. Sounds good, fingers crossed

"We expect to produce such a disk by the end of the year.

Greetings, This might have been asked already, but I am wondering about the fate of adventures written for T20. QLI is no longer selling them, they are selling generic D20 stuff now. Which is too bad because they were interesting. I was told that they might be collecting them for sale by CD ROM at Far Future. Is this true? If not, how are fans able to gain access?
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Marc Miller
FFE / Heartland Publishing
 
T20 to Scifi20

I suppose most of us came to COTI for T20. Whoever's ideas they we're there was a lot of good stuff. :)

More products that support multiple product lines (or updates) would be advantageous for everyone and improve sales i suspect.

CT, MT, TNE, T20, GT, MT supports are less likely to switch to T5, however, it does happen. It would be nice to see Scifi20 competing with the other D20 systems again. :file_22:
 
Actually got this response from Mr. Miller. Sounds good, fingers crossed

"We expect to produce such a disk by the end of the year.

Greetings, This might have been asked already, but I am wondering about the fate of adventures written for T20. QLI is no longer selling them, they are selling generic D20 stuff now. Which is too bad because they were interesting. I was told that they might be collecting them for sale by CD ROM at Far Future. Is this true? If not, how are fans able to gain access?
--
Marc Miller
FFE / Heartland Publishing

Realize: QLI was Hunter; Hunter died of cancer. Much of the work was MJD. There were issues with the business relationship, which Marc is trying to rectify since Hunter's passing. There most likely will not be further QLI materials of any kind. QLI's website stayed up only because I was too lazy to remove it, and as a courtesy to his fans. (It's hosted in the same ISP account as COTI.)
 
It would be nice to see Scifi20 competing with the other D20 systems again. :file_22:

If a game designer is really interested they can simply make a new D20 Trav type game. It doesn't require any lic fees or permission...
 
T20 to Scifi20

If a game designer is really interested they can simply make a new D20 Trav type game. It doesn't require any lic fees or permission...

Interesting. So in the case of D20 Trav a licensing fee to the owners of Scifi20 is not required? Not even to FFE? Or is it a matter of removing all traveller from it as Hunter did?
 
Interesting. So in the case of D20 Trav a licensing fee to the owners of Scifi20 is not required? Not even to FFE? Or is it a matter of removing all traveller from it as Hunter did?

It's OGL. So, almost no. Not everything in the SF20 rulebook was open content. Most of it, however, is open content.
 
Interesting. So in the case of D20 Trav a licensing fee to the owners of Scifi20 is not required? Not even to FFE? Or is it a matter of removing all traveller from it as Hunter did?

I meant, D20 SRD + Trav SRD = New D20 "Traveller" game.
 
I am wondering why reinvent the wheel. There are copies of the T20 guidbook still on the used market. Or are you interested in commercially publishing a new game? If you just want to mashup something for your own use I don't think there is anything wrong with that as long as you don't distribute it. Back in the 80's my friend ran a "Traveller" game based on the original Top Secret espionge RPG rule set. It worked really well and we played for years.

Personally I love the T20 game and D20 in general but I don't think I've ever played in a D20 game that wasn't houseruled to some extent. Could you just not house rule things to get what you want from a game?
 
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I am wondering why reinvent the wheel. There are copies of the T20 guidbook still on the used market. Or are you interested in commercially publishing a new game? If you just want to mashup something for your own use I don't think there is anything wrong with that as long as you don't distribute it. Back in the 80's my friend ran a "Traveller" game based on the original Top Secret espionge RPG rule set. It worked really well and we played for years.

Personally I love the T20 game and D20 in general but I don't think I've ever played in a D20 game that wasn't houseruled to some extent. Could you just not house rule things to get what you want from a game?

Actually, I was mentioning more products that are multi-game compatible. To a certain degree they all are compatible.

I have never met a ref that did not have home rules...
 
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