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Since it isn't a person and is rather a corporation I have no issues sharing: Since the potential for marketability for this line has been dry for some time I suspect they would be willing to entertain a short term IP usage. They have a great deal of experience with many markets and have people working with them that know our market in particular. There is a clear and distinct IP holder and it is a company that I actually know to be fairly easy to deal with. Ok even more communication on a weekend how crazy is that?
#Renegade legion centurion miniatures for sale license
If the owner takes legal action in response to IP theft, he's likely to perceive the property as being worth more than it really is – if nothing else he'll want to recoup any costs incurred by dealing with the pirate – thereby inflating the price of a license to beyond the point where anyone will pay it. I respect other people's IPs more than some, but I'm also concerned that someone running with the IP sans license might lead to a situation that could shut off a legit license for good. Maybe 28mm Man can settle it, which was the original point of starting the thread.Īs to the implication that my viewpoint stems from solely being a manufacturer, re-read my post.
#Renegade legion centurion miniatures for sale how to
Sam Lewis does seem a likely candidate, but I haven't a clue as to how to contact him to ask, and he might not even be sure about the legal issues involved himself. No one here knows who it is, but that doesn't mean no one owns the IP – no one here has invested any serious time and effort in researching the subject yet, that much is obvious. There is no "legit owner" to get a license from.Ĭertainly there is. (Or, everyone just waits for the fire sale to pick up some nice minis cheap.) Maybe that will be enough to keep both of us, and a small group of fans happy. The BSG stuff is flying off the shelves and will do well over time, but mostly because they're flying without the weight of a license.Ī new Renegade Legion might make it as a very narrow boutique line, especially with direct internet sales (what do you call the long tail stuff now, "superniche"? "subniche"?), and if the license if dirt cheap. The last decade is filled with the debris of many space combat titles (including several versions of B5). Yes, it was a great setting, and Interceptor will *always* be one of my favorite games, but is it enough to support a broad new line? FASA got out of the game business for a reason. But putting my own excitement aside, and having worked in the game industry at different times, I have to ask. (btw, just checked out Ravenstar's site: nothing about Leviathan, but GORgeous figures.)Īs for wider interest, I did stumble across an RL yahoo group awhile back that was trying utilize the new 3-D printers in creating a line of Leviathan ships for their own use.
Most of my purchases of the last few years have been new versions of games I played growing up, but didn't own when they first came out.Īnd, given my above lament, I'd probably buy new versions of the various RL games, particularly if the miniatures were good. Oh believe me, I absolutely understand and appreciate the urge (and need) to revive OOP games. It would appear that he doesn't think its time has passed, and neither has CinC, who still produce some of the old minis. Tried emailing him to ask who but I got a bounce the first couple of times. More recently, I've seen posts saying that Ravenstar Studios is planning on releasing minis based on the Leviathan fleet recognition guide, which indicates that someone out there must have sold him the rights to do so. Wargames West was convinced that FASA dropped RL because it was cannibalizing their own player base, and were too committed to BTech to abandon in favor of RL (a much better setting and rules family, IMO). I'm still inclined to believe the distributor staffers that told me (way back when) RL was actually selling fine, but the better it did, the worse BTech sold. Not like FASA ever pushed the RL games as hard as they did Battletech, and print runs weren't that large even at their peak. "Modernized" versions of the old RL games would probably do quite well – and the original games are starting to run out and becoming more and more expensive. Renegade Legion is certainly one of those – the setting itself was a very strong one, and Centurion in particular is still one of the best scifi ground combat games I've played.
I was asking initially because Mongoose's recent revival of the Noble Armada universe (in the form of ACTA Noble Armada, and the upcoming new edition of the RPG) got me to thinking of other old settings that deserve another shot at life.
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