Reply To: First impressions vs sustainability. Are looks more important than rules?

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@limburger  You’re absolutely right about (3) but that was not the point. He does those titles all the time I just thought his statement about “game needs new minis to survive” interesting.

@grantinvanman you’re not wrong but does that keep a game alive? Or just the IP? I know I’m splitting hairs here but that’s the whole point of this discussion.

@onlyonepinman  good point on Battletech. Hadn’t thought about that. And you raise an interesting point: does the setting dictate the way you need to foster your game? Probably. There is some real overlap here. Historicals tend to focus more on the rules as you can’t copyright the design from 1582 or something. So *anybody* could do those minis. Thus when you invent a three legged hover tank that fires dwarves in a SciFi universe: claim those rights baby, who cares about game rules?