Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[shinryu]

So, this is sort of a tricky point: In converting Shadowrun I've been trying to use a minimum of neccessary books to do so; SWD and SPC are pretty much required to use what I've done. But there are a couple of powers/edges from other books (say, the Summoning powers from Horror Companion) that work nicely. On one hand, I would like to use them as they're "official" material; on the other hand, I really don't want to make someone have to have Horror Companion just to use one or two powers.

So, is there a quasi official guide for reprinting these things in a fan conversion if it's a small excerpt? From a copyright perspective, I understand you can't copyright mechanics, so technically if I rename and rephrase the edge/power and it has the same game effect that's not a per se copyright violation, but does seem like a bit of a dick move.

[Clint]

The Fan License (and Publication one for that matter) are posted on the website...

http://www.peginc.com/licensing/

Section 5 would be the one to check in this specific case.
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Clint Black
Savage Worlds Core Rules Brand Manager

www.peginc.com

[TommyBrownell]

[Clint]

[TommyBrownell]

[shinryu]

Well, it sounds like it might be easier to just retool things if I decide to release this, then. I had come up with something for summoning that looked almost exactly like the Summon Spirit power, for example, and then went "hey this looks like Summon Spirit, maybe I should just use that."

I guess my concern then is not looking like I did knock off something in the books: again, the copyright only covers the description of the mechanics to my knowledge (not the mechanics) but even if this is sort of a case of parallel development I wouldn't want to make it look like i just filed the serial numbers off, you know?