Re: [BNW] A true Super Hero team for BNW (Matt Forbeck)

[The White Crow <whytcrow@io.com>]

At 11:04 AM 7/28/2001 -0700, you wrote:


> > Please trim your quotes!

Again, please trim your quotes to the minimum needed to establish 
context.  For digest readers especially, lack of trimming makes it almost 
impossible to read.


>  Well I would like to at least both names in my Super Hero team source for
>BNW,

I know.  But if you can't use both, which one is more important?  What 
other team name would fit?  What about the team leader's name -- what else 
might fit him?  The other thing to be is to make absolutely sure that while 
the names are the same, the chars/team are *completely* different in 
concept beyond the fact that they are superheros and so is the game.

Especially if you want it published, you will want to distinguish your 
group.  Beyond the potential legal issues, you want it to be original and 
unique, or people aren't going to be interested in reading it.

Unless you quote your sources.  Would the people making the game object to 
you writing up their chars into BNW terms for a Pyramid article?  Ask them 
-- they might like the publicity, or they may say no.  Also, if they are 
different you can say "Hey, I had this idea that coincidently uses the 
names from your game.  My concepts are very different, and I want to make 
sure you won't have issues with this..."

After all, the names are hardly unheard of.  They are very comic-book type 
names.

>Secondly you right both groups have a different view on Deltas. Also in
>Delta Prime most of members aren't Fascists, They are in it for the single
>belief that what there doing is for the good of the US. Only the higher ups
>know the real true of Delta Prime, That DP was created to keep JFK in power.

Is that the truth?  It may be.  It may not be.  It may have been the goal, 
but is it the reality?  All the info we ever get is from the somewhat 
unreliable narrators of the setting, and they could be mistaken or lying or 
a little of both.  Keeps the setting real and allows for a lot of room for 
Gms to find their own interpertation.

Jennifer