Eragon Campaign!!

Caiyln · Post by **Caiyln** » August 24th, 2007, 11:29 pm

Alright, does anybody know of the movie/book Eragon?
It's about a boy who becomes a dragon rider. I was thinking about doing a campaign about his adventures, how cool would that be!? I would switch in levels between Eragon on feet, and Eragon on the dragon, Saphira.
It would be great, except, I suuck at creating units. Anybody want to team up and help me out with the idea??

Thanks.

waw · Post by **waw** » August 24th, 2007, 11:33 pm

You can't make a campaign about copyrighted material and publish it.

If you do make the campaign you have to keep it to yourself and cannot put it on the server. Eragon is copyrighted.

As for a dragon rider unit... would be very nice to have around.

If you do decide to try and make it, you have to keep it to yourself or you could probably pass it around but you can't put it up in here from what I understand.

Caiyln · Post by **Caiyln** » August 25th, 2007, 12:32 am

hmm.. that would suck, i wonder if there's anyway to get around that rule... it would be a neat campaign, i had already started plannig

waw · Post by **waw** » August 25th, 2007, 12:34 am

You could buy the rights from the author... EXPENSIVE but thats it.

Like I said, you could still make it... but you would have to keep it to yourself and pass it to your friends. Wesnoth couldn't host it in any way.

Caiyln · Post by **Caiyln** » August 25th, 2007, 12:44 am

alright, thanks.

Blueblaze · Post by **Blueblaze** » August 25th, 2007, 1:29 am

As well, you can't use the forums as a means to advertise, get help, etc.. for the campaign as well if its intentions are to break copywrite laws.

Post by **irrevenant** » August 25th, 2007, 3:21 am

Note that there's nothing wrong with doing a (loosely) Eragon-inspired campaign. Eragon doesn't have dibs on the concept of dragon-riders. (I seem to vaguely remember a D&D setting called "Dragonlance", for example. Oh and Anne McCaffrey might've put out a novel or two...)

Caiyln · Post by **Caiyln** » August 25th, 2007, 4:20 am

Ahh.. very good, I will make up the plot of a new Eragon BASED campaign. Thank you!

playtom · Post by **playtom** » August 25th, 2007, 5:11 am

change the names of character in the movie/book eragon, then change some of the storylines to more wesnothlike, and add some plot twist. i think you can pass it

it's about time theres some epic sized campaign in wesnoth.

Caiyln · Post by **Caiyln** » August 25th, 2007, 6:21 am

true that. Is anybody interesting in making the characters?? e.g. dragon riders, instead of urgals, orcs will do, the shade....??

Post by **irrevenant** » August 25th, 2007, 6:58 am

Caiyln wrote:Ahh.. very good, I will make up the plot of a new Eragon BASED campaign. Thank you!

Just to clarify:
By Eragon-inspired, I mean it's okay to take concepts expressed in the book (dragonriders, etc.) and write a new story around those concepts. I do not mean that it's okay to use the likeness of characters from the books or to rip the plot verbatim.

To use an example I'm more familiar with, it would be fine to write a story about a kid going to a school for wizards.

If you did any of the following you should expect trouble:
1. Give the protagonist a lightning-shaped scar.
2. Call the school "Pigwarts".
3. Have the character get there via a train from a non-existent platform at a train station.
4. Etc.

If in doubt, err on the side of caution. It'll probably lead to a more original and interesting story anyway.

Personally I'd also exclude the whole "You are secretly important person X 'cos Y" plot. Not because of legal concerns, but just because it's such a cliche. But that could just be me.

Elerium · Post by **Elerium** » August 25th, 2007, 11:32 am

Making stories is great, I don't know why you would want to re-create it on normal stories or books out there when you can create your own fictional characters, plus you would be the one in the director's seat. Just make it good and worthwhile, and make it so that we are attached to your characters through likable qualities. If it's an exact duplicate of the Eragon plot what you're doing, then some of us won't be interested.

*cough* Off topic here but I always thought Eragon was a poorly written book, same with Harry Potter *cough*

Caiyln · Post by **Caiyln** » August 25th, 2007, 2:22 pm

WHAT?? Eragon is one of the greatest books, as with Harry Potter. The second book in the Eragon series is much better than the first. Irrevenant,
I thanks, and yes, i did understand that I cannot use the names or basic storyline of the Eragon plot.

Uberon · Post by **Uberon** » August 25th, 2007, 5:43 pm

I made an Eragon campaign too, before I was told I couldn't upload it. If you want, I can e-mail it to you. It doesn't have the events of the third book yet though. I did make some dragon rider units for it along with special characters for different levels.

Weeksy · Post by **Weeksy** » August 25th, 2007, 5:51 pm

WHAT?? Eragon is one of the greatest books, as with Harry Potter.

Read something with less media coverage. If you want adventure, Kipling's Kim is good. If you want fantasy, some would say Robert Jordan, but personally I would go for Anansi Boys by Niel Gaiman, or The Windsinger by William Nicholson. Judging by your posting, and your insisting that Eragon is not just another half-quality book that the media took up because some teenage hack had enough charisma to suck it up to the press*, I'd say the sarcasm of Terry Pratchett might sweep over you, but I might still give it a look if I were you. I highly reccomend Alexandre Dumas and the entire Three Musketeers series, but it's a bit hard finding a good translation that isn't abridged.

Pratchett wrote a book at the age of 17, the Carpet People, which, while rather hard to find, is an incredibly wonderful fantasy book that seems to lack the harsh cynicysm of his later works. But the media didn't like him as much, (he looked wierd or something) and so it didn't get as much press time.