From: mavra@cpac.washington.edu (Peter D. Adkison)
Subject: Re: Palladium/WotC Lawsuit--How You Can Help
Organization: Wizards of the Coast, Inc.
	<92353.191030IK20001@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 18:21:35 GMT

In article <92353.191030IK20001@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Solipsist at Large <IK20001@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:

>   Heh.  I ought to tell you that I never picked up TPO or Talislanta.
>   No problems against it -- I was just never interested.  I have
>   every intention now of buying them both, to look at.  There are a
>   lot of games -- companies with guts and a willingness to speak straight
>   are another matter entirely.

Thanks.  In all fairness, I've found that most of the gaming comanies
are very straight.  It's just a few bad apples that spoil the image
for all the others.  We've received a lot of encouragement and words
of advice and support from Steve Jackson Games, White Wolf, Mayfair,
R. Talsorian, Hero, ICE, BTRC, GDW, and others.  The owner of one of
those companies even spent a considerable amount of time with our
attorney, at no charge, pointing out gaming related cases that might
be of help in our situation.

>   >3. Help increase our press coverage by submitting articles about our
>   >products to magazines and amateur publications.

>   It might be nice for you to indicate which Magazines and APAs have
>   been supportive of your systems in the past.  That way writers
>   won't waste time and postage sending materials to Magazines who
>   couldn't be less interested.

Sadly, I'm not as familiar with the APAs in this industry as I should
be, so I certainly would not be able to provide you with much of a
list.  The key is to find magazins/APAs that print the same type of
material.  For example, avoid Challenge--it only prints Sci Fi.  Avoid
White Dwarf--it only prints Games Workshop stuff.  Dragon and Dungeon
go for more mainstream stuff.  White Wolf might be interested in
anything along our lines though.  Most APAs are always hurting for
writers, so any APA that publishes fantasy would probably be
interested in articles relating to Talislanta or TPO.

>   >4. Let us know how you feel.  We really don't want to do anything
>   >wrong, and we enjoy getting feedback, pro or con, about what we're
>   >doing.

>   Keep the faith.

Thanks.

>   Finally, mail to Palladium expressing *politely* your support of WotC
>   may help.  If Palladium gets the feeling that their market is being
>   lost by their lawsuit, they may decide to drop it even if they feel
>   they can win (win the battle, lose the war).

If you do write to Palladium, make sure you tell them that I did not
slander them or their products, that my primary reasons for posting
were to keep gamers informed, solicit advice, and to find out if the
gaming community thought we were doing anything wrong in this
situation.

You might voice you opinion that, if anything, TPO *helps* the
Palladium line, that it essentially provides free advertising for
their system, and that since you need an underlying game system to use
the material it *can't* steal consumers away from their product line.

				--Mavra!
				  Peter D. Adkison
				  Janitor, Wizards of the Coast
				  mavra@wizards.com

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