Palladium loses rights to Robotech rpg and Robotech Tactics Miniatures Game

[Klorox]

Yeah, when I learned of that Crisis was somewhat when I lost faith in Palladium. That and the fact that Kev grossly misedited lots of material from extremely talented contributors, and failed to publish lots of stuff that would have been great (like the last two volumes of Rifts Australia)

[Electric Wizard]

I'm not following what happened. Why did they lose the rights and so who has them now? Can somebody else get them?

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[thejeff]

Kittyburger wrote:

thejeff wrote:

The Mad Comrade wrote:

That would require stockholders and a board of directors. Last I heard Palladium is an LLC (as is Paizo). The people running the show in an LLC answer to no one other than cash flow.

Doesn't require it. He could do it.

No one can force him to do it, but that doesn't mean he couldn't choose to delegate the business end.

A competent, outside business manager would NEVER have permitted Steve Sheiring to walk off with tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in memorabilia and company assets.

I considered donating to Palladium's fundraiser but ultimately declined to do so. I feel fortunate that I did not.

Of course, if you're not good at hiring competent outside business managers, you might wind up hiring someone like Steve Sheiring.

[Wei Ji the Learner]

Electric Wizard wrote:

I'm not following what happened. Why did they lose the rights and so who has them now? Can somebody else get them?

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Who's on first?

To say the ball of legal entanglements is bigger than the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota is a bit of an understatement.

I'm not an attorney, and I only know in passing that the thing has more twists and turns than your best roller-coaster.

[Phillip Gastone]

Do you play one on TV?

I do have fond memories of the old TMNT. With sorucebooks like After the Bomb and one focusing on a 'Rat Pack' of evil animals. Another one had the PCs ride along with a trucker and fight ninjas while speeding down the highway.

[Klorox]

Wei Ji the Learner wrote:

Electric Wizard wrote:

I'm not following what happened. Why did they lose the rights and so who has them now? Can somebody else get them?

.

Who's on first?

To say the ball of legal entanglements is bigger than the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota is a bit of an understatement.

I'm not an attorney, and I only know in passing that the thing has more twists and turns than your best roller-coaster.

To the best of my knowledge, Harmony gold took their rights back following Pally's gross mishandling of the fig game kickstarter... problem is that HG does not have long to live, as their own licence on the various Robotech and Macross series are due to expire soon, so don't expect them to licence anything out, or even issue new material.

[Phillip Gastone]

HG from what I gathered is pretty horrible in their own right about the whole Robotech line.

Talk about the anime will also no doubt bring up Streamline Pictures and the late Carl Macek who took the original 3 series)Macross,Southern Cross, Mospeda) and made them into 3 separate series.

[Klorox]

uh what? Macek bought rights to three utterly unrelated Tatsunoko Series, and altered the dubbing to make them into a single, 3 parts series, or, to me more precise, to make the three distinct series parts of the same universe at 3 different times.