Announcement: Forgotten Futures Payment Policy

[ffutures]

In response to recent announcements by certain games companies, I would like to make it clear that I do not require Forgotten Futures players, referees, and / or event organisers to pay me any money whatever, register their clubs or societies in any way, shape, or form, or tell me about anything you do with the game - for example, I REALLY don't want to know about your characters, nor do I greatly care about your totally authentic Victorian campaign in which everyone is a bad-assed elf with semi-automatic weapons, your really neat steam powered giant mecha, your 50-page addition to the combat rules, etc. etc.

It would be nice if you registered as a user, and paid me the relatively small amount of money I charge for a CD-ROM containing the rules, support material, etc., but if you're feeling mean you can find the core gaming material on line and use it as much as you like without charge. Whether you are registered or not, I have no intention of telling you how to behave, nor do I really care if you use the game rules as they stand or invent your own. I am marginally more likely to pay attention to criticism if you are a registered user, but that's about it.

If you are stupid enough to hurt yourself or others while playing Forgotten Futures you are on your own. Saying that because Forgotten Futures has rules for wounds and combat - which do not in any way require players to engage in real combat - you have gone out and murdered 25 people will just make you look very, very silly when they are sentencing you to the electric chair. Similarly, the existence of magic rules in the game does not in any way constitute acknowledgement of the existence of the supernatural, and saying that the devil made you do it because you played a role playing game will also make you look very silly when they are sentencing you...

Thank you.

Comments

[armb.livejournal.com]

I want to hear more about these steam powered giant mecha.

[rustybitch.livejournal.com]

I have to ask.
What brought this on?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Hypothetically, you might want to google on "pay-to-play" and "Camarilla".

[vampire-scion.livejournal.com]

Long time lurker...

From your statements, I have an idea of what your position is on this entire situation that recently came up.

I love your game. I promise I'll never tell you what I do with it, as you have requested.

I posted info about the humdrum that's going on (other game wise) recently in my own LJ. Personally, I am stupified (though said condition is not in any way due to games convincing me to lop anyone's head off).

Hopefully, this will all blow over, and we can laugh at it heartily as we have over many other lawsuits which have come and passed.

Be well.

[the-tall-man.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to figure out a way to support your stuff for a bit now, since I use illustrations you've gathered and read books you post as sources for the games I run. But, no credit card, no chequebook, strictly cash.

I could send you a money order...

?

If you're curious about what I write, or are willing to spend the time trying to connect for a money order in the vicinity of 20-50 canadian dollars, look me up. But I'm not going to spam you.

Thank you, though, for the work you've done, and your resolution not to get involved in the idiocy of others.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

The problem is that it is now VERY difficult to handle small foreign currency transactions except by direct transfers such as Paypal, and the only way I have around that (a friend who has a US dollar bank account) doesn't work for other currencies.

If you're really interested in registering my suggestion would be to ask a friend who has a PayPal account (or a credit card) to order it for you, giving your name and address in the "comments" box for Paypal, and give them the cash. Other than that I can't really make any suggestions.

[the-tall-man.livejournal.com]

I'll ask around - if one of my friends is willing, I'll register and order the CD at the same time. Thankfully, they aren't compulsively cash-based like I am.

A question, as well. Many/most of the art pieces used in FF are copyright expired, and thus free for use if I want to print a nice pretty guide to my world for players, or to publish it online.

Is there any easy way to determine which ones are copyright, which ones aren't, and to get full-scale versions of the copyright-free pictures that have clearly been condensed in size? Finding any significant deposit of such illustrations online that suit the genre and the period is quite a trick.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the delay in commenting.

All of the art is copyright-expired, and most of it is on the CD-ROM in much larger versions than I have on line.

The exceptions are the manipulated images I used for the worldbooks etc., where I didn't bother keeping larger versions - in hindsight it might be a good idea in future.