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lwmurdock	GeneTech	Lead	[-]
Posts: 1 (04/24/03 09:31:04) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None I just picked up a copy of Polyhedron #155 / Dungeon #96. I am impressed by the GeneTech campaign setting. The small surveillance robots are especially nice. They remind me of the spiders in Minority Report. I am going to use some of these rules in my new campaign. It will be Shadow-Chasers with a bit of GeneTech (Moreaus, Franks, & Robots) and using the addictive drug rules from the Book Of Vile Darkness (a suggestion I saw on either this board or the wizards board, I can't remember...). Has anyone else incorporated GeneTech into their campaigns?
RichardRedman	Re: GeneTech	#1	[-]
Posts: 412 (05/12/03 07:42:44) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Despite being the author of that article, I've focused more on Urban Arcana. I struggle with the idea of getting a, or the, license for GeneTech support material. It's a lot of hassle, it's unclear to me whether WotC even wants to license it, and I don't have a good feeling for the size of the audience. Rich Redman VP, The Game Mechanics
c1150	Re: GeneTech	#2	[-]
Posts: 2 (05/26/03 11:42:59) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	*Quote:* It's a lot of hassle, it's unclear to me whether WotC even wants to license it, and I don't have a good feeling for the size of the audience. Well I'm one voice, but I for one would love to see a full treatment for GeneTech
KrensharGlobal	RE: GeneTech	#3	[-]
Posts: 37 (05/27/03 11:20:31) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Same here! I, personally, love the setting and am currently running a side game based on it.
solkanuk	genetech	#4	[-]
Posts: 15 (06/11/03 05:57:05) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm going to run an adapted version of it, I found it the most compelling of the settings, so far.
Emancipator33	Re: genetech	#5	[-]
Posts: 335 (06/11/03 08:54:12) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Run! Rich's Ego is swelling, Ahhh! -----------------"Hail to the King Baby!"
azzazzin	re; Genetech	#6	[-]
Posts: 2 (06/19/03 19:12:18) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'd buy 2. Anyway Rick could you do any follow up stuff here on the boards. Sence you created it it would feel official coming from you.
RichardRedman	Re: re; Genetech	#7	[-]
Posts: 412 (06/20/03 07:10:24) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	No, I can't, at least I can't without being in copyright violation. That material is now property of Wizards of the Coast. Rich Redman VP, The Game Mechanics
azzazzin	Re: re; Genetech	#8	[-]
Posts: 2 (06/20/03 09:47:12) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Oh. Do you know if there will be any more material published in future issues of Poly
seraphimpunk	Re: re; Genetech	#9	[-]
Posts: 1 (07/12/06 06:46:27) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	That sucks. You write up a treatment for a setting for them and then you don't even have the liberty to continue to publish material for it?
effrenatus	Re: re; Genetech	#10	[-]
Posts: 563 (07/12/06 07:38:53) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	It's the nature of working for a company. Work materials, copyrights, and patents you develop while on the clock are seldom yours. It's what the company gets from you in return for your paycheck. For example, let's say I have a friend writing Internet Explorer for Microsoft - there's no way he'd have the right to use that code when he gets a new job. He'd have to play by the same rules as all other non-employees who want to use IE. For the record, Wizards of the Coast has been very generous toward TGM with their trademarks and copyrights. As far as I know, we still have the only non-WotC official Urban Arcana adventure (Come for the Reaping) in publication, and WotC let us reference d20 Future by name in our Future Player's Companion even though it's not specifically allowed by the d20 use guidelines. --Marc Schmalz Web Manager, The Game Mechanics, Inc.
ShadoStahker	Re: re; Genetech	#11	[-]
Posts: 18 (07/12/06 10:49:39) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	*Quote:* For example, let's say I have a friend writing Internet Explorer for Microsoft - there's no way he'd have the right to use that code when he gets a new job. He'd have to play by the same rules as all other non-employees who want to use IE. He'd be able to use the knowledge of the code he wrote to design his own, better browser, however. But he couldn't share it with anyone. It's the same here. Rich can write up all the material he wants, and never be in copyright violation. But the moment he shares it with us, Bam! WotC and TGM seem to have a good working relationship. It would suck to mess that up over an issue such as this.
stannex	Re: re; Genetech	#12	[-]
Posts: 309 (07/12/06 18:58:23) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	You're correct in principle, but I think your example is off. In the same way that the hypothetical programmer could use his knowledge to design a new browser, Rich can use what he learned creating Genetech to make ANOTHER campaign setting that explores similar themes and tropes ... he can take the ideas he would have poured into Genetech and put them into this other hypothetical setting. For the record, I want to second Marc's statement that WotC has been VERY cooperative with TGM. We still work closely with people in the WotC offices. And I, for one, have absolutely NO regret over intellectual properties that I "left behind" when Wizards and I parted company. Stan! www.stannex.com ... Home of All Things Stan! "When you're in a bad mood, just think about a monkey!"
deadradish	Re: re; Genetech	#13	[-]
Posts: 8 (07/17/06 09:06:29) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	So, why doesn't he? Looks like there's a fair market for it (of course, I know the feeling of seeing the numerous board posts clamoring for something, then seeing the sales figures when it actually comes out, but...), and it might be nice. The FPC is a good series, but it even mentions in the intro that you can just keep doing modified rules until your ears bleed. A setting which incorporated some of the extra rules from FPC, in a good environment, would be nice. Check out my work in Akashic Nodes: The Home of Memory, Bits of the Boulevard and my newest, Tell it to My Axe!
JD Wiker	Re: re; Genetech	#14	[-]
Posts: 432 (07/18/06 07:44:16) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Rich doesn't create new settings because he works for Wizards again--but not in RPG R&D. (He works in licensing.) That work, I suspect, keeps him busy enough that he just doesn't have the spare time to create new settings. JD
deadradish	Re: re; Genetech	#15	[-]
Posts: 8 (07/18/06 08:33:55) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Bah! That's a weak excuse. We'll just take up a collection, and ship him a couple crates of vivarin.... Check out my work in Akashic Nodes: The Home of Memory, Bits of the Boulevard and my newest, Tell it to My Axe!
deadradish	Re: re; Genetech	#16	[-]
Posts: 8 (07/20/06 10:50:43) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ah, Serendipity. Preparing for the new baby, I happened to check my old stash of Dragon mags in the process of moving them, and remember that I'd picked up a handful of Dungeons. Flipping through them, what do I find? Yup. I owe a total of maybe 7 issues of Dungeon, and one of them is Genetech. I am now happy. Check out my work in Akashic Nodes: The Home of Memory, Bits of the Boulevard and my newest, Tell it to My Axe!
Grakarg	Genetech	#17	[-]
Posts: 24 (02/12/07 21:49:12) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	So....Rich.... Do you think we could encourage you to write up some random Genetech thoughts and submit them to WOTC for an update to the d20 Modern website? Just to kinda rattle the cage a little to stir up the monkeys? Updates have been few and far between, and we don't see any products listed for '07 (even on TGM s website). Its a little disheartening! Thanks!
RichardRedman	Re: Genetech	#18	[-]
Posts: 412 (03/01/07 15:45:42) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Wow, one slow day and what do I find when I come wandering around to the TGM site? I get e-mail fairly regularly from people who want to see new material from me on the WotC d20 site. I expect Stan! does, too. We both wrote adventures for the d20 site that have been partially published. I know that I've pressured the web adminstrators to update with material they already paid for, and for various perfectly good business reasons they don't post the material. So I could write it, but there's no guarantee that they would a) buy it or b) post it. I love d20 Modern, flaws and all, and I'd love to do a whole new edition of it, and if I win the MegaMillions jackpot tomorrow night ($267 million is just crazy! How can no one have hit the jackpot yet? [strictly rhetorical question, no statistical analysis response required]) I just might go OGL and give Green Ronin a shot at publishing it. Thanks for all the love, folks. Now shift it over to Marc, who goes in for shoulder surgery tomorrow. Rich Redman Assistant Brand Manager for Licensing Wizards of the Coast