Taking Back Blood Bowl
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 12:40 am
I've been out of the Blood Bowl community for a while, and it's pretty upsetting to see how Games Workshop has treated Jervis, the BBRC, and all the fans of Blood Bowl.
Has there been any talk of taking back Blood Bowl? By this I mean removing any and all hold Games Workshop has on the game. This could be done by re-writing the rule book (keeping the same rules, but changing all of the wording that's not strictly necessary for rules interpretation), creating new images, and ending the use of all words and phrases trademarked by Games Workshop. Because the rules of a game cannot be copyrighted, and because no Games Workshop trademarks would be used, and because rewriting the rules would change the game's "look and feel", the fans would be free to control the game again.
We'd have to change the name of the game (Blood Bowl is trademarked by GW), but the game would be ours again. We could restart the BBRC and bring back the Living Rulebook. We would no longer be under constant legal threat by GW.
What I'm wondering is this: is the Blood Bowl community brave enough to take this leap and take back control of their game? Or are we content with being slaves to the corporate masters at GW?
Has there been any talk of taking back Blood Bowl? By this I mean removing any and all hold Games Workshop has on the game. This could be done by re-writing the rule book (keeping the same rules, but changing all of the wording that's not strictly necessary for rules interpretation), creating new images, and ending the use of all words and phrases trademarked by Games Workshop. Because the rules of a game cannot be copyrighted, and because no Games Workshop trademarks would be used, and because rewriting the rules would change the game's "look and feel", the fans would be free to control the game again.
We'd have to change the name of the game (Blood Bowl is trademarked by GW), but the game would be ours again. We could restart the BBRC and bring back the Living Rulebook. We would no longer be under constant legal threat by GW.
What I'm wondering is this: is the Blood Bowl community brave enough to take this leap and take back control of their game? Or are we content with being slaves to the corporate masters at GW?