Wheel of Time (Don't hate me)
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Wheel of Time (Don't hate me)
I can't imagine this hasn't been discussed before, but I searched around a bit and couldn't find a topic on it. I've been playing Wesnoth for quite some time and its struck my that someone could make a Wheel of Time (love it or hate it fantasy book series for those of you who don't know) campaign for it pretty easily. I was wondering if anyone has done this before, looking through the add ons, I didn't see any campaigns for it.
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Re: Wheel of Time (Don't hate me)
While it's not an inherently bad idea, the Wesnoth Project discourages making add-ons based upon copyrighted works. There's a risk that Wesnoth could end up being sued for copyright infringement, and, being an open-source project, there's not a whole lot of money available to pay legal fees. This most commonly comes up with Lord of the Rings - the Tolkien Estate is known to be quite litigious.
If you do want to go ahead with a Wheel of Time based campaign, then you'll have to do so independently of the main Wesnoth Project; no development threads on the forum, no hosting the add-on itself on the standard add-on server. We don't want to discourage creativity; we just can't afford copyright entanglements.
If you do want to go ahead with a Wheel of Time based campaign, then you'll have to do so independently of the main Wesnoth Project; no development threads on the forum, no hosting the add-on itself on the standard add-on server. We don't want to discourage creativity; we just can't afford copyright entanglements.
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Re: Wheel of Time (Don't hate me)
It's also true that Wheel of Time follow the classical scheme that many fantasy sagas follow: there is someone that it's not so important and he becomes an hero/superevil that save/destroy the world.
I say Shea Ohmsford? Frodo Baggins?
I say Shea Ohmsford? Frodo Baggins?
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Re: Wheel of Time (Don't hate me)
That is a simplisitc (to the point of being pointless) comment and also irrelevant to the thread.
"There are two kinds of old men in the world. The kind who didn't go to war and who say that they should have lived fast died young and left a handsome corpse and the old men who did go to war and who say that there is no such thing as a handsome corpse."
Re: Wheel of Time (Don't hate me)
At this point there's nothing good that can come out of this thread. Might as well Lock it.