[TML] Mongoose Traveller

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Wed Aug 15 11:53:55 MDT 2007


At 6:16 PM +0100 8/15/07, Andrew Long wrote:
>On 15 Aug 2007, at 18:07, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>  > Just because they treat the people that work for them well, that
>>  doesn't mean that they conduct all of their affairs in an ethical
>>  manner.  As I stated in my message, I find the whole MRQ SRD affair
>>  to be unethical.  I'm not alone in that feeling.
>>
>Sorry, I'm not that good on TLAs. What's MRQ SRD?

Mongoose Runequest System Reference Document.

Basically they took the BRP system, filed off the serial numbers, and 
released it under the "Open Gaming License" for *ANYONE* to freely 
use.  Considering Chaosium owns the BRP system, I call such behavior 
unethical!

		Zane


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