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Chief Creative Officer, Publisher
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Thanks for posting, CEO. Unfortunately, we were unaware of your "Steel Shadows" PDF when Keith Baker wrote "Steel Shadows" last year. While the name dupilcation is unfortunate (no moreso than Fantasy Flight putting out a book called "Dungeoncraft," but I digress), your contention that the two "Steel Shadows" cover "identical subject matter" is flat-out false and misleading.
"Steel Shadows," the adventure by Eberron creator Keith Baker, is about a serial killer hunting warforged in the depths of the city of Sharn.
Near as I can tell (and it ain't easy to tell), your "Steel Shadows" is a d20 pulp source-PDF detailing "still more Feats and Negative Feats, a new monster race, explanations of Gangsters and G-Men for your GOLDEN game, a short story and a JazzpunkTM Lexicon - translating all that wonderful slang from the era between the World Wars!"
While that sounds interesting, it is hardly "identical subject matter."
Thanks.
--Erik Mona
Editor-in-Chief
Dragon & Dungeon
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As our friends in online gaming might say...
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Creative Director
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"Near as I can tell (and it ain't easy to tell)"
Nice insult. Is everyone treated with this much esteem, or is Pisces All Media a special case?
This certainly isn't intended as an insult, but I can see how it might be interpreted that way. In fact, drnuncheon is right; at the time the initial post to this board went up, it wasn't easy to find information about a "Steel Shadows" PDF online.
In any case, public messageboards are not the appropriate forum to discuss legal matters.
I agree that this was a pretty inapropriate thing to bring up on message boards.
Well, there's a White Wolf gaming group known as Steel Shadows in Pittsburg, there's a Steel Shadow company making whimsical metal garden sculptures in Washington State, the content of "STEEL SHADOWS: Murals and Drawings of Pittsburgh" is probably obvious from the title, the Worley-Bugge.r Fly Co ("For fly fishers by fly fishers") has a product known as Steel Shadows, there's a Marvel fanfic piece entitled "Steel Shadows One", and then I gave up after page 5 of the search results on Google.
The White Wolf group certainly has the prior claim on "Steel Shadows" in the context of gaming, going back to at least 2001 from the information I found on their website.
Mr Nolan, I can guarantee you that I will not be purchasing any products from your company. Had I known about it before now, I quite possibly would have -- I have a deep interest in the Pulp era and a game in that genre would be very appealing to me -- but thanks to your unprofessional and distasteful display on here, you've lost a customer.
(Edit: Bugge.r shouldn't have a period in it, but the censors get the company's name otherwise. Very funny. :-) )
