tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post5468572093556802213..comments2024-03-18T20:22:06.331-04:00Comments on GROGNARDIA: The Clark Ashton Smith GameJames Maliszewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-31532984023459117012023-04-16T17:39:25.490-04:002023-04-16T17:39:25.490-04:00I'm afraid nothing ever came of it, alas.I'm afraid nothing ever came of it, alas.James Maliszewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-63603946338278369382023-04-16T17:34:31.013-04:002023-04-16T17:34:31.013-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.DM Crimson https://www.blogger.com/profile/11922840939370122263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-2546267236297308392012-02-05T10:45:45.458-05:002012-02-05T10:45:45.458-05:00For the benefit of anyone who may have missed the ...For the benefit of anyone who may have missed the news (I'm sure most of you know, but just in case), Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea will be published soon!<br /><br />http://odd74.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=hyperboreaJeremy Deramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13166744272459044563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-25921185891752339392010-06-01T09:24:27.536-04:002010-06-01T09:24:27.536-04:00James, I would LOVE to see this game with or witho...James, I would LOVE to see this game with or without CAS quotes. I'd buy it for good maps and a gazetteer alone!MtbDMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03308561716045085035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-40242268428118885672010-05-31T16:46:48.141-04:002010-05-31T16:46:48.141-04:00I'd love to see it too.I'd love to see it too.Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-54539580406865455382010-05-31T13:11:37.814-04:002010-05-31T13:11:37.814-04:00Hi!
Just for the record:
http://catalog.chaosium....Hi!<br /><br />Just for the record:<br />http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?cPath=66&products_id=1303<br />(non-zothiquian CAS stories)<br /><br />A free pdf d20 setting for Zothique:<br />http://www.eldritchdark.com/articles/criticism/30/zothique-d20-system-game-guide<br /><br />I hope to see your Zothique RPG one day, JM. Go ahead!<br /><br />ghoulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-74348543200980432122010-05-31T05:41:41.336-04:002010-05-31T05:41:41.336-04:00@Jose:
oops - didn't think of looking up wiki...@Jose:<br /><br />oops - didn't think of looking up wikisource.anarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05546197561922726279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-42961101972460162432010-05-31T02:55:28.870-04:002010-05-31T02:55:28.870-04:00The Arkham House thing--evil and I won't buy a...The Arkham House thing--evil and I won't buy anything from them.<br /><br />Smith books--awesome and the Bison versions are readily available. Try them and yuo will want to buy the expensive hardbacks becuase CAS rcoks so mightily.<br /><br />The game--what would you have done that would have made a great game? Other than using his settings, how were you going to tweak things?Matthew Slepinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04056247825064943944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-35474954265190141432010-05-30T18:21:10.522-04:002010-05-30T18:21:10.522-04:00In Wikipedia you can read some Smith's works:
...In Wikipedia you can read some Smith's works:<br /><br />http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Clark_Ashton_SmithJosé Joaquín Rodríguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05419481758371621113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-86680765603307324762010-05-30T09:32:11.535-04:002010-05-30T09:32:11.535-04:00According to Wikipedia, his stories were published...According to Wikipedia, his stories were published between 1930 and 1941.<br /><br />This would mean that they would have been renewed 28 years later, or fallen into the public domain in the USA.<br /><br />For those years the Copyright Office published a <i>Catalogue of Copyright Entries</i>.<br /><br />So you could look through the relevant catalogues to see if the copyright for a given story was renewed.anarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05546197561922726279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-4344442308097705632010-05-30T07:00:15.996-04:002010-05-30T07:00:15.996-04:00Maybe it's because I teach copyright law for a...Maybe it's because I teach copyright law for a living, but it seems to me that a smart guy like you shouldn't need to hire a lawyer to show that various CAS works are public domain. There are plenty of public sources these days where this kind of info is available. And Arkham House are hardly going to want to risk a decisive judgement against them and bring down their house of cards.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01173759805310975320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-90842323507862950862010-05-30T03:21:15.224-04:002010-05-30T03:21:15.224-04:00If it doesn't attract a dubious legal threat f...If it doesn't attract a dubious legal threat from a fantasy writer's estate, is it a real old-school game?anarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05546197561922726279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-53044472225902875232010-05-30T00:14:16.238-04:002010-05-30T00:14:16.238-04:00No criticism intended, but after all that work, I ...No criticism intended, but after all that work, I too would've gone ahead without the CAS excerpts in the rpg book.Baron Greystonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16636292202674906870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-24630136664950690922010-05-29T22:17:09.796-04:002010-05-29T22:17:09.796-04:00I know Chaosium had plans on doing some sourceboo...I know Chaosium had plans on doing some sourcebooks based on Hyberborea and Zothique. Maybe there's a way of going through them being that they have published CAS's works in one book or another.crowkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03066821931343968827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-84136529123271316152010-05-29T22:11:15.525-04:002010-05-29T22:11:15.525-04:00I don't know about the legalness, but I found ...I don't know about the legalness, but I found a game called Zothique on Scrbd.<br /><br />Smith's stories are of course online somewhere too.Claytonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10427928164050640466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-52035157965107404072010-05-29T21:37:52.057-04:002010-05-29T21:37:52.057-04:00Nerd Oddrum said:
Worlds of Cthulhu Magazine, that...<i>Nerd Oddrum said:<br /><b>Worlds of Cthulhu</b> Magazine, that I just learned is closing down, has been running a Dark Ages of Cthulhu treatment of Averoigne. </i><br /><br />I'm sorry to hear that: I've enjoyed WoC quite a bit, although I also still have to buy the most recent two issues or so.<br /><br />Allan.grodoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11800184312511280050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-81169783907646449812010-05-29T21:33:03.771-04:002010-05-29T21:33:03.771-04:00So, the only thing stopping you was the resistance...So, the only thing stopping you was the resistance by AH to using some of the stories? Why not make the game without them?Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01254215329246851683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-61699224210814254412010-05-29T21:29:58.276-04:002010-05-29T21:29:58.276-04:00"So far as I can tell, there hasn't been ..."So far as I can tell, there hasn't been a mass market paperback version of any of his stories since the 1970s and that's ridiculous"<br /><br />There was a three volume mass market "Timescape/Pocket Books" series of CAS stories in 1983 that was my introduction to the greatness of CAS.Badmikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199830751033032585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-34567272796070863622010-05-29T21:14:45.961-04:002010-05-29T21:14:45.961-04:00Another project derailed by Arkham House, a crap c...Another project derailed by Arkham House, a crap company employing crap people. I can't wait until their bread and butter (Lovecraft and CAS) fall completely into public domain and that crap company can be happily driven out of business. Their reputation in the industry and fandom can accurately be portrayed as "crap" (can you see a theme here?)Badmikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199830751033032585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-60022994183343839582010-05-29T20:08:24.241-04:002010-05-29T20:08:24.241-04:00Wow.
I still consider CAS to be much better than ...Wow.<br /><br />I still consider CAS to be much better than HPL (heresy I know) so I would have LOVED to have had this game.<br /><br />An chance at all you might release it?Timothy S. Brannanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-90223150125513790312010-05-29T19:13:10.154-04:002010-05-29T19:13:10.154-04:00Very interesting. I had no idea that Arkham House ...<i>Very interesting. I had no idea that Arkham House held their "copyright" on Lovecraft through sheer intimidation.</i><br /><br>AH would obviously disagree with this characterization, but, based on the opinions of a lot of people who've studied the matter very closely (including S.T. Joshi, who, while far from being infallible with regards to HPL, is nevertheless, a generally reliable source), the publisher has no legal claim to the copyrights. Many countries, such as Australia, already consider HPL's writings in the public domain and I suspect that in most others AH's legal claims would be met with great doubt, although it might take lawsuits to prove the matter.James Maliszewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-8886265470202758672010-05-29T19:03:26.090-04:002010-05-29T19:03:26.090-04:00Very interesting. I had no idea that Arkham House ...Very interesting. I had no idea that Arkham House held their "copyright" on Lovecraft through sheer intimidation.Duglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04952607750940479779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-44307383359841226892010-05-29T15:52:46.650-04:002010-05-29T15:52:46.650-04:00The University of Nebraska Press, via an imprint c...The University of Nebraska Press, via an imprint called Bison Books, puts out an absolutely AWESOME series called the "Bison Frontiers of the Imagination" that includes a lot of the best pulp fantasy and sci-fi, in really nice scholarly editions with thoughtful introductions. They offer 2 volumes of Smith's stories - Out of Space and Time and Lost Worlds, both of which are fantastic. Just FYI.nextautumnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201978755112508204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-71591122174766485552010-05-29T15:36:02.309-04:002010-05-29T15:36:02.309-04:00Just one more example of how contemporary copyrigh...Just one more example of how contemporary copyright law is essentially a form of book-banning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-61899238569114891692010-05-29T15:16:31.205-04:002010-05-29T15:16:31.205-04:00JB, I am surprised no one's mentioned http://w...JB, I am surprised no one's mentioned http://www.eldritchdark.com/ which boasts a huge archive, with many of CAS' best known tales and poems. Granted, it's no substitute to the beautiful, if expensive, Nightshade Press editions, but it's one hell of a start.Iglesiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08416128782481346800noreply@blogger.com