Saveing the Game

[jumin]

Have any publishers purchased the Game rights? Or has anyone looked into who owns the copyrights?

Some really cool stuff could be done with this setting.

I would love to use Gorgona allaince to make a PBEM map that is similar to the game map.

Mainly I would like to see some new publishings of original content since some of it is becomming hard to find.

[Elton Robb]

I could make some plans to purchase the rights to publish Birthright through Margaret Weis Productions. Is anyone against this?

Elton.

[vota dc]

I think that the useless Sierra that has sabotaged the game (99% attention to Antara 1% to Gorgon's Alliance) now keeps the game rights AND keeps the game away from shops.So very few people knows the game....I never saw in Italy a person that knows about Gorgon's Alliance or Birthright (they ignore paper game too).
The game has a lot of weak points (bad adventure mode,bad AI)....but it was 1997 and for the time it was an avanced game.So it has no success and no diffusion because Sierra's decision.

[DanMcSorley]

On 6/20/07, Elton Robb <brnetboard@birthright.net> wrote:
> Elton Robb wrote:
> I could make some plans to purchase the rights to publish Birthright through Margaret Weis
> Productions. Is anyone against this?

I don`t think Wizards is licensing their settings right now. They
have recently been pulling home all their licenses. I`m pretty sure
MWP already lost Dragonlance, for instance.

--
Daniel McSorley

[jumin]

There might be enough members who are willing to purchase New Birthright material here to support a small publishing of the original content and prehaps some new material....

It probably wouldnot be very profitable more a labor of love...

[Elton Robb]

That's the case with RPG publishing these days. Unless you are WotC or willing to go out on your own, you can't really make a profit since the market is glutted and diversified.

The guy/gal doing it will have to have multiple streams of income in order to support himself or herself.

[irdeggman]

On 6/20/07, Elton Robb <brnetboard@birthright.net> wrote:
> Elton Robb wrote:
> I could make some plans to purchase the rights to publish Birthright through Margaret Weis
> Productions. Is anyone against this?

I don`t think Wizards is licensing their settings right now. They
have recently been pulling home all their licenses. I`m pretty sure
MWP already lost Dragonlance, for instance.

--
Daniel McSorley


Yes she had an announcement saying as much.

Ravenloft, Gamma World and just about any other setting licenses have reverted back to WotC (including Dragon and Dungeon magazines).

I can't find the thread on EnWorld but there was a lot of talk about this and if it was all tied into their new Digital Initiative.

[irdeggman]

There might be enough members who are willing to purchase New Birthright material here to support a small publishing of the original content and prehaps some new material....

It probably wouldnot be very profitable more a labor of love...

You would need to be careful of the Official Fan site agreement and how it affects such activities, at least via this site.

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