RE: [MUD-Dev] Custom Server Roll Call?

["Koster, Raph" <rkoster#origin,ea.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bennett [mailto:ddt#discworld,imaginary.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 2:41 PM
> To: mud-dev#kanga,nu
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Custom Server Roll Call?
> 
> 
> On 5/3/99, at 5:53 PM, Wes Connell wrote: 
> 
> >Well technically the server I'm working on is not custom 
> since I had to
> >use memory allocation stuff from Diku. Diku gets credit =]. 
> Anyways, the
> >mud is going to be AD&D based. It will be to the book exact. 
> Following the
> >book exact turned out to be more of a challenge than I 
> thought. A couple
> >of somewhat interesting things I've done to the server is combine the
> >object/character/player structures into one structure and 
> make the room
> >descriptions dynamic depending on what 
> objects/characters/exits are in the
> >room.
> 
> Morning,
> 
> I hope you have talked to TSR about the copyright issues here (well,
> Wizards of the Coast now)?  Being derived from a set of books or from
> something like AD&D immediately puts you into a copyright 
> problem if you
> try to go public.  TSR (when they were TSR) did shutdown at 
> least one mud
> that I know of, for being based on Forgotten Realms.
> 
> Copyrighting the technicolour dreamcoat,
> David.

This may become more of an issue since Bioware (who just had a big hit with
"Baldur's Gate" as a standalone game) is reportedly working on some sort of
graphical mud set in Neverwinter.

-Raph


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