wex@milano.UUCP (03/18/86)
In all this talk about TSR killing SPI and not releasing DragonQuest I got to
wondering:
There is a line of (very good) FRP supplements put out by a company calling
itself Role Aids (yes, that's how they spell it!). I have a couple of their
books and have seen several more. All the back cover blurbs say that their
stuff is usable with AD&D (it is), and that AD&D is a registered trademark
of TSR, etc. Then in big letters it says explicitly that TSR has NOT given
them permission to use the logo, etc.
My question is: Why do this? Is it some sort of legal device for self-
protection? Is TSR suing these people (gawd, I hope not!)?
--
Alan Wexelblat
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"Please don't dominate the rap, jack
If you got nothin' new to say."req@warwick.UUCP (03/25/86)
In article <1195@milano.UUCP> wex@milano.UUCP writes: >There is a line of (very good) FRP supplements put out by a company calling >itself Role Aids [...] [paraphrase of original: the Role Aids supplements claim to be usable with AD&D, and say that AD&D is a trademark of TSR `use without permission'] >My question is: Why do this? Is it some sort of legal device for self- >protection? Is TSR suing these people (gawd, I hope not!)? > I understand that TSR have successfully sued Mayfair Games, the producers of the `Role Aids' products. Newer editions of the suplements no longer bear the message about the TSR/AD&D trademark. This was reported in The Dragon, and in Imagine & White Dwarf in the UK. I don't remember the date. - Russell -- ARPA req%warwick.uucp%daisy.warwick.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa EARN/BITNET req%warwick.uucp%UK.AC.WARWICK.DAISY@AC.UK JANET req%warwick.uucp@uk.ac.warwick.daisy UUCP seismo!mcvax!ukc!warwick!req (req@warwick.UUCP) For FRPList (mail.frplist), use "frplist" instead of "req" in the above. I cannot reply to ARPA mail -- please include a BITNET or UUCP path.