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Villains & Vigilantes Creators Sue Publisher

Posted by timothy on from the neater-than-garotting-them dept.

rcade writes "Jeff Dee and Jack Herman, the creators of the super-hero roleplaying game Villains & Vigilantes, have filed a federal copyright lawsuit against the game's longtime publisher Scott Bizar of Fantasy Games Unlimited. They allege that Bizar has no rights to publish the game because his corporation was dissolved in 1991, reverting the rights to them. Dee and Herman revived the old-school RPG last year and have been battling Bizar ever since. Sadly, this suit will not be resolved by muscle-bound men in tights."

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  1. Re:How About ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    RTFA?

    Brent Rose, the Tampa attorney representing Dee and Herman, told me in email that the suit was filed after other means of resolving the dispute were attempted. "There were cease and desist letters issued by both sides," he said. "We requested arbitration or mediation or even just a teleconference to just try and work things out before filing our federal lawsuit, but our written requests were either ignored or refused."

  2. Ahhh.. FGU.. the old days.. by sstamps · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I remember our interpretation of their acronym:

    Fscking Game's Unplayable

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    -SS "Teach the ignorant, care for the dumb, and punish the stupid."
  3. Re:How About ... by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please, not another discussion of D&D 3.x.

    Okay, how about D&D 4? I've started gold farming with my tank.

  4. Re:V&V was a hell of a system - for its time by aekafan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tell that to playboy magazine.

  5. V&V was a fun game. by lexsird · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Once upon a time, I owned a game shop, I enjoyed playing V&V myself because it was a break from DMing. We had a super fun cheesy time, bellowing battle cries while we tossed dice to see if we fell flat on our face or landed a deadly blow. We had a GM for V&V nicked named Dizzy, and he put on a great game. Thinking back there are just some things that don't translate well into computer gaming. The social aspect of it being the number one thing that comes to mind. Gone are the late nights, the delivered pizza boxes stacked up, piles of empty soda cans and playing hard until everyone is goofy tired, played out and ready to crawl home and sleep late. We smoked too, a thick haze choked the pastiest of geeks, so we had a fan blowing it out. It was a place to go for so many people. Kids used to tell us that they would much rather be gaming at the shop than out at a party.

    I still remember my cheesy character I named "The Black Mask", who wore a black mask...real brilliant, huh? But it I played it up until it would slay the lactose intolerant.

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    Take the Red Pill.