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Wizards oopsie doesn't own TSR maybe, and also the new TSR very bad
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:26 am
by Kaelik
Apparently Wizards of the Coast just forgot to file registration renewal for TSR and related trademarks.
So some dude in North Carolina who wants to publish books that give black people racial penalties to intelligence and explicitly ban trans characters created a new TSR company to sell "Star Frontiers."
Now Wizards is suing and claiming that by continuing to sell Spelljammer they have "common law" trademark on TSR stuff.
Re: Wizards oopsie doesn't own TSR maybe, and also the new TSR very bad
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:28 am
by Thaluikhain
Ah, so that what was going on. Read something about that a while ago but couldn't really make sense of what was happening. Thanks.
Re: Wizards oopsie doesn't own TSR maybe, and also the new TSR very bad
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 4:40 am
by The Adventurer's Almanac
Kaelik wrote: ↑Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:26 am
So some dude in North Carolina who wants to publish books that give black people racial penalties to intelligence and explicitly ban trans characters created a new TSR company to sell "Star Frontiers."
Just out of curiosity - what do white people get?
Re: Wizards oopsie doesn't own TSR maybe, and also the new TSR very bad
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:33 am
by Thaluikhain
IIRC, the minimum intelligence for "Norse" people is higher than the maximum intelligence for black people. Something like 13 and 9, but I could be wrong.
Re: Wizards oopsie doesn't own TSR maybe, and also the new TSR very bad
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 4:34 pm
by The Adventurer's Almanac
But what's the balance? Lower charisma? Less wisdom? Nothing at all?
Re: Wizards oopsie doesn't own TSR maybe, and also the new TSR very bad
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 2:05 am
by Thaluikhain
https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2022/09 ... ium=Social
From the excerpt there, Norse are just better, but there might be more than that in the actual rules.
Re: Wizards oopsie doesn't own TSR maybe, and also the new TSR very bad
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 5:40 pm
by Zaranthan
Well at least they've got their ideas in line with themselves, as opposed to RaHoWa giving the "lesser" races superpowers like no-save stunlocks.
Good luck with banning trans characters, though. Just look at the Harry Potter fanfic community.
Re: Wizards oopsie doesn't own TSR maybe, and also the new TSR very bad
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2022 4:55 pm
by The Adventurer's Almanac
Wow, they
are just better. Alrighty, then...
Re: Wizards oopsie doesn't own TSR maybe, and also the new TSR very bad
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2022 5:07 am
by Dogbert
The thing is, NuTSR swiped Star Frontiers' trademark while forgetting the book and its content was a copyrighted IP, and now that they're being called out, WotC filed an injuction against Justin LaNazi on account of IP theft AND damages since NuTSR is misleading the public into associating WotC's properties with deplorable content.
So, Hasbro lawyers on the case. Stick a fork in Justin LaNazi. He's done.