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From: steven@qubix.UUCP (Steven Maurer)
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Subject: Re: Rolemaster, initial impressions thereof.
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Date: Mon, 24-Oct-83 13:46:57 EDT
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    Rabitt:jj,

    Excuuuuuuuuuussssseeeee   Me!!

    I didn't know you had such a thin skin.
If you really take "I hate to break it to you.. ", as an insult, 
I wouldn't want say anything so ego damaging as "You're wrong".
Next time I'll try to leave you in blissful ignorance about the
correctness of your flames.

    In regards to your query about lawsuits, yes there have been
a few.  Although a particular rolling system cannot be patented,
(or at least I believe none have tried), there are Copyrights to
particular writeups of spells, monsters, and game systems.  Dave
Arneson (sp?), sued Gary Gygax for over 5 million dollars, but they
settled out of court for a mere 1/2 M; it seems that Dave Arneson
actually WROTE D&D, and good ol' Gary ripped him off.

Steven Maurer