benlehman

First of all, it's foreign_devilry. Second of all, whatever Ben. Write your game. Steal ideas from me. Whatever. I'm sure that what you come up with be SO different from Quixote & Coyote / Storypunk / Facedance / Beneath This Facade (if I ever end up finishing the damn thing) that it won't matter at all. I'll applaud you. I'll buy your game. I'm going to be stealing the NPC distribution rules from Polaris as soon as you publish them someone public (possible before that even, if you don't hurry up), so you sure as hell better take something back. Traditional ideas about intellectual property should never, I think, be applied to the mechanics of RPGs. We're a community that produces our best work when we take the Industrial Revolution approach: steal someone else's idea and improve upon it.