This is the question.
I have promised to do a retro-clone this year of MSH Classic (FASERIP for those who remember) in response to my feelings on 4C. Yes I wasn't very impressed.
Now over on Grognardia there was some talk about MSH Classic today and I posted about this. Naturally I posted about my plan to do this and how I wanted to call it "Mighty Super Heroes!" Get it? M-S-H?
Anywho, an upright citizen named Delta reminded me and everyone that Marvel and DC hold the trademark on the term "super hero". Now while I don't fear that they would come after me for a "free" project, nonetheless anarchist (yes I see the delicious irony in that) suggested calling it "Excelsior!" instead. I like that too.
So what do you think folks? What are you thoughts on title?
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MSH it will at least be recognizable to people. I wonder if anyone owns a copyright on the word "FASERIP" though?
ReplyDeleteI image FASERIP is not available since it was the original name for 4C and was abandoned.
ReplyDeletePlus you would have to use Fighting, Agility, Strength, Endurance, reason, Intuition and Psyche to have it be relevant.
Best to avoid too many direct grabs ;)
So I just read far too much on the trademark of the term "Super Hero" and I have to say it sucks. A damn shame that such a simple and widespread term is not allowed to be used for promotion or advertising thanks to the legal system.
ReplyDeleteNow someone has suggested that the word "Excelsior" is trade-marked, but I can't find any evidence of that with my limited search abilities.
Anyone got any leads?
Let me know if you need any art for this. I will work for a piece of the pie when it comes out of the oven. I was a sponsor to the original 4C and would like to see similar efforts to keep this system going.
ReplyDeleteRegards,
Walt
Thanks Walt, I appreciate the offer and will take you up on it.
ReplyDeleteOne of the ideas I had for this was to hold a patronage money drive after the rules are done to build up cash for art (Hell if we could get enough was gonna see if there was a way to get a George Perez commissioned cover ;) ).
Do you have a web gallery or something where I can see some of your work?
Sorry it took so Long to respond but I am a soldier and had to work all weekend. My gallery is here: http://hazardstudio.net/id1.html
ReplyDeleteI have done work in the past for some of the bigger names in gaming but have been just getting back into things as I recently got back from being deployed.
Let me know,
Regards,
Walt
Cool stuff Walt! Thanks for the link :) We will certainly speak again when this project gets more developed than just the seed it is right now ;)
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