Factions and Units from the World of Eragon
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Factions and Units from the World of Eragon
The Idea is simple, since a few years i love the story and books of Eragon.
I searched for an Eragon extension for Battle for Wesnoth for a long time and did not find anything. Now I will take it in my own hands and create this extension myself. In this post I explain which peoples I want to integrate, which units they will get and why I want to do it that way.
People:
imperium units:
In keeping with the peoples and units, the expansion should include a scenario retelling the story and the opening of the expansion will include a single map reflecting the look of alagäsia.
Officially, there are only 4 books on the history of the Eragon and Alagäsia, but unofficially there is still fan fiction in particular the 5th part of Traeumer from the website http://www.fanfiktion.de has done to me and as soon as the main part of the project is completed I will possibly incorporate the events from the 5th. The book is available to my knowledge only as a German version.
Link to the 5th book: https://www.fanfiktion.de/s/4ecba37e000 ... ein-Anfang
If there are any suggestions where I can do something different or better, I would be glad about feedback.
I searched for an Eragon extension for Battle for Wesnoth for a long time and did not find anything. Now I will take it in my own hands and create this extension myself. In this post I explain which peoples I want to integrate, which units they will get and why I want to do it that way.
People:
- imperium
varden
dwarves
elves
urgals
imperium units:
- imperial spearman
imperial swordsman
imperial archer
imperial magician
imperial cavalry
imperial dragon rider
shadows
urgals club fighter
ra’zac
lethrblaka
- human swordsman
human archer
human spearman
human magician
dwarven Ax fighter
urgal club fighter
urgal kull
elves magician
varden scout
surda cavalry
human dragon rider
elves dragon rider
- dwarven ax fighter
dwarven archer
dwarven priest
dwarven feldûnost-cavalry
dwarven swordsman
dwarven spearman
az sweldn rak anhûin assassin
vrenshrrgn
- elves swordsman
elves spearman
elves archer
elves magician
elves scout
elves dragon rider
- urgal club fighter
urgal priest
urgal swordsman
kull
urgal archer
urgal scout
In keeping with the peoples and units, the expansion should include a scenario retelling the story and the opening of the expansion will include a single map reflecting the look of alagäsia.
Officially, there are only 4 books on the history of the Eragon and Alagäsia, but unofficially there is still fan fiction in particular the 5th part of Traeumer from the website http://www.fanfiktion.de has done to me and as soon as the main part of the project is completed I will possibly incorporate the events from the 5th. The book is available to my knowledge only as a German version.
Link to the 5th book: https://www.fanfiktion.de/s/4ecba37e000 ... ein-Anfang
If there are any suggestions where I can do something different or better, I would be glad about feedback.
Re: Factions and Units from the World of Eragon
You will be forced to rename mostly everything. viewtopic.php?t=34904#w0fpi9
Re: Factions and Units from the World of Eragon
Ravana wrote:You will be forced to rename mostly everything. viewtopic.php?t=34904#w0fpi9
Thanks for the hint! It's clear to me why I have to do that, but I also have to say honestly that I did not think about it because I do not want to achieve commercial success with the extension. My concern was only to provide like-minded people with this topic for their game and their fun
Re: Factions and Units from the World of Eragon
It's not about "commercial success" - it's because everything you release on the add-ons server must be under GLP license (or in case of art/music it can be now some variant of CC, I don't know exactly which). And you cannot relicense copyrighted material, including the names, the world, the map, and the events (namely everything you listed )
I too loved the Eragon books, but implementing anything like that into Wesnoth is not possible without severe renaming, relocating, and rewriting stuff. Just an example: A story of the rse and demise of an order with dragon riders is pretty OK in a fantasy world, but they surely can't be called Shur'tugal, and their capital can't be Vroengard. Or at least not on the official forums and the official add-ons server.
I too loved the Eragon books, but implementing anything like that into Wesnoth is not possible without severe renaming, relocating, and rewriting stuff. Just an example: A story of the rse and demise of an order with dragon riders is pretty OK in a fantasy world, but they surely can't be called Shur'tugal, and their capital can't be Vroengard. Or at least not on the official forums and the official add-ons server.
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Re: Factions and Units from the World of Eragon
WhiteWolf wrote:It's not about "commercial success" - it's because everything you release on the add-ons server must be under GLP license (or in case of art/music it can be now some variant of CC, I don't know exactly which). And you cannot relicense copyrighted material, including the names, the world, the map, and the events (namely everything you listed )
I too loved the Eragon books, but implementing anything like that into Wesnoth is not possible without severe renaming, relocating, and rewriting stuff. Just an example: A story of the rse and demise of an order with dragon riders is pretty OK in a fantasy world, but they surely can't be called Shur'tugal, and their capital can't be Vroengard. Or at least not on the official forums and the official add-ons server.
If I integrate the content in the private game then there should not be any problems, right? Because if I have it only privately in the game, no one can continue to grab it.
Suppose I get permission from the author (It's unlikely, but it's theory). Could you then "distribute" it here over the forum and above the server?
I am new here in the forum and do not know me, so my questions could possibly something "stupid" act. Sorry for that!
Re: Factions and Units from the World of Eragon
I don't think it works like that.
Someone tried something similar with LotR. Didn't work.
Someone tried something similar with LotR. Didn't work.
Re: Factions and Units from the World of Eragon
You can just consider creating content, units that are inspired in world of Eragon but not those that are present in World of Eragon book.
For example, wesnoth can't have Ents because that would be illegal under the GLP license, but they can name it "Wose" which is likely a treeman that is more a tree and less a man than Ents.
Even for personal usage I do not think it might be legal at all, especially if you're playing privately with at least other person with other computer.
Come'on it's not that hard to modificate names of units, factions, places, lore, etc. By just doing this only diference your add-on could be published and everyone could use it with no problems.
For example, wesnoth can't have Ents because that would be illegal under the GLP license, but they can name it "Wose" which is likely a treeman that is more a tree and less a man than Ents.
Even for personal usage I do not think it might be legal at all, especially if you're playing privately with at least other person with other computer.
Come'on it's not that hard to modificate names of units, factions, places, lore, etc. By just doing this only diference your add-on could be published and everyone could use it with no problems.
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