I would love a seperate forum spot for us to put custom hero/villains as well as mod ideas and promo versions of character cards.
Right now it would just go into General and I don't want to fill that up with "here's a new idea on whoever I was tinkering with!" threads.
Is there any chance of getting a section like that? We had the villain contest, but that is closed off now, any way we could retitle that section and open it, or get a new spot to put stuff?
I know I'm not the only one who tinkers around with creating their own characters, and I'd love to look at and try other peoples stuff. It'd be nice to have a spot just for those things.
I understand it is possible the >G guys would rather not encourage that, and I totally understand if that is the case.
They don't want custom heroes/villains posted on here. The only exception was during their villain contest. If you go to BBG, you can find a lot of custom characters.
I wouldn't be too surprised if this stance changes in the future, after all planned expansions are released, but that is just my own personal speculation.
I think they also exist so that people can reap the rewards of their creativity rather than having others immediately copy their work and sell it as their own.
True, if those laws didn't exist, there are plenty of people who could release and make money off their own personal expansions to the game, or make a new game with different characters and the exact same mechanics.
So I guess I should scrap my Gentiles of the Nick Nolteverse idea then? And I was so hoping that people could play as Subsolute Zeroni and Tachylbox agianst the dubious Errant Jade...
On the subject of derivitive works, has anyone else noticed that DC has been using Sentinels superhero names recently? Granted, their Teen Titans Bunker character is nowhere near as interesting and cool as Sentinels Bunker, but there is now a Tempest in Ame-Comi Girls' Teen Hellions. They're an all-female reimagining of the Teen Titans, with Tempest being a female Aqualad styled after a "kawaii" version of the creatures from The Trenches in the first New 52 Aquaman arc (yeah, I know, it IS wicked creepy). It's actually surprisingly well written for being little more than an eye candy ongoing series...
I know these names are probably coincidence, but if a Tachyon or Absolute Zero character shows up any time soon then Greater Than Games may have to get Paul to make a few phone calls.
Everyone knows Tachyon is just a rip off of Particle man.
That's why if you look at her incap sides, TLT the guy is clearly holding a triangle, and in her original, two purple triangles bending and molding into an Pythagrian death trap.
My original character Tackymon is much better, a super hero who mixes Rastafarian influences with 70's Glam rock.
If that was the case, there would be no reason for the law to prohibit anything OTHER than selling. The whole "we have to aggressively defend our IP" thing is the reason an utterly terrible Fantastic Four movie got made years before the Jessica Alba one, and was locked away in some back room in Hollywood. They never had any intention of releasing it, they just excreted the thing out so that they could prove to a judge that they were still interested in retaining the IP. This prevented anyone else from making an FF movie that might actually have been good, or at least accessible to the public.
If it was just selling it that was outlawed, then we could remake Sentinels in PDF form and just all print it out. No sales, but we'd all be taking their ideas with no compensation.
I believe that would be an acceptible risk. Enough of the fans would be ethical, I think, and would want to reward the company for having designed this awesome game, by paying for it…unless they can't pay for it, in which case I don't think it's fair to deny them the fun. Basically the way Shareware works with computer programs; you know you should pay if you're able to, but you get the product regardless. And ultimately I think going down in history for having created something excellent is a better Legacy (heheh) than sitting around in an office threatening to sue people for cutting into your profit margin. I mean, the law might be protecting a small business like G2G some, but it protects a monstrous juggernaut like Warner Brothers a lot more, when they deserve protection less, and usually use their shield as a weapon to grind lesser beings into the dirt.