Re: GM Ethics

From: womerd@lvcm.com (Dave Womer)

Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 05:45:00 +0000

My thoughts on your questions:

To outright steal ideas is wrong but to buy a rule book from another
company in your industry is just good business...look at it this
way..almost all GMs where once players .. was it wrong for all of them
to take what they learned by playing and then try to improve on it? I
do feel if he had no intention of playing he should have said that up
front...

"Andi" <andi.thornton@dontemailmeunlessiaskedyouto-btinternet.com> wrote in message news:<a1pjas$c67$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>...
> Hi,
>
> A quick question to other GM's! I run a small commercial PBeM company
> part-time and feel that we have a great american football sim. We only
> charge �1.25 per turn so we never planned to get rich off it. I was
> approached by a GM from a LARGE commercial company asking whether he could
> play the game. I saw no reason to stop him, so I gave him a setup and in due
> course he sent me �10!!
>
> Now he turns round and says he wishes to drop and is only interested in
> Neutral Zone from a business aspect and nothing else. Seeing as he has
> failed to reply to any of my emails since then I assume he only joined to
> obtain game and design ideas.
>
> So what do other GM's feel about this practice and would they do something
> similar??
>
> Regards,
>
> Andi

References

GM Ethics
"Andi" <andi.thornton@dontemailmeunlessiaskedyouto-btinternet.com>
Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:03:13 +0000