Re: Ripping off Copyrighted Material

From: ColinForbes <timewyrm@suilven.demon.co.uk>

Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 00:00:00 +0000

MadCentral wrote:

> ALL POTENTIAL PLAYERS OF DUNGEONWORLD BY MADHOUSE PLEASE NOTE:-
> If anything I've said in any of this thread causes a problem for you,
> *please do not play*.  I speak my mind, I encourage my staff to do the
> same, and if you have any problem with this sort of directness, for any
> reason, we would rather decline you positions in *any* of our games.

I would, oddly enough perhaps, like to back Steve up on this point.
Although I rather enjoyed my period of playing Madhouse games (what
happend to the excellent "Retribution" Steve?) I have since had my
differences with Madhouse (which do not a post mortem) - though I would
stress that these problems were with Madhouse rather than Steve.

Madhouse games are designed and run in a particular way as excercises in
having fun whilst making money at the same time. As such I have a
sneaking regard fro Madhouse in that they manage to retain some of the
enthusiasm and energy of a small company, whilst having the
professionalism and quality (of service and game materials) you would
expect from a big company.

Whilst most of their games are, in my personal view, rather simplistic
and occasionally irritatingly purile (there someone can flame me now!).
I stress that this is an OPINION! Anyone who knows me will tell you that
I like hideously complicated games so I'm slightly biased against the
sort of games generally run by Madhouse (and KJC and...)

That said, and this is a big BUT, I honestly believe that Madhouse are
an important part of PBM and in all probability bring hundreds of people
into the hobby eacch year. Inevitably some of these players will
progress to play other games, which benefits us all, whether we're GM's
or players (or magazine editors).

The point is this... My own opinions about Madhouse's games are what
they are, but I do get rather fed up with constant carping about
Madhouse iteslef. They do a good job and I really do not believe they
would be so unprofessional as to refuse a refund etc. Do you honestly
think they NEED to withold a couple of quid???

Colin.

References

Re: Ripping off Copyrighted Material
"darthclive" <darthclive@breathemail.net>
Wed, 14 Jun 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Ripping off Copyrighted Material
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Fri, 16 Jun 2000 00:00:00 +0000