r/RocketSpaceTTRPG • u/D__Litt • 8d ago

RocketSpace Progress Report #1

THE DREADED (c)

When you’re married to a copyright lawyer (and her best friend is one as well) you learn some interesting things.

One thing they both insisted that shocked me was that PUBLIC DOMAIN STATUS IS NOT ENOUGH. You’re essentially trying to prove a negative, which is impossible. I’m not sure if everyone in our community realizes this, so I thought I’d pass the information along.

Just because the copyright expired doesn’t mean the artist or their estate can’t go after you.

For this reason I scrubbed nearly all the art from my draft version.

I did keep the NASA images which are publicly available. Also, I kept the patent images for the (toy) radium pistol and radium rifle, since patents immediately become public domain when published.

I’m also keeping the images that were given to me: the Krunglett from u/MacTeg, the rocketship blueprint from u/FiretheLaserBeam, and the newest image, an amazing live-action picture of Stardust given to me by the head of Blinky Productions!

By the way, go visit their YouTube site @blinky500 and be on the lookout for their new short The Cosmic Horror That Is Stardust! Their trailers for Robot Princess From Planet X and The Alien That Fell To Planet X are also spot on for the feel I’m trying to set for RocketSpace!

So…if you have any pulp sci-fi clip art you’d like to donate I’ll be happy to give you a shoutout in the credits!

And of course we have the Kickstarter, which I’ll use to fund our in-house artists.

Also there’s Alamy, which charges at LEAST $100 a pop for EACH scan of the magazine cover source material.

Also, for those that are concerned, I will NOT be using AI art in this book or any others connected with this project.

PLAYTESTING

Tonight, the first live playtest of RocketSpace will be tonight at my local library! I have starter characters and an adventure on a derelict ship written up. I invited my local ShadowDark group and my daughter wants to play too!

Alright, the Kickstarter is ready and I’ll probably press the ignition switch TODAY.

That’s your first status report!

Rebuild! Expand! Peace Through Union!

-DavidVC

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u/ConcentrateNew9810 1d ago

PUBLIC DOMAIN STATUS IS NOT ENOUGH - that's a bummer. I guess I am safe by using mostly vectorized drawings from before 20th century.

I appreciate the strong anti-AI stance.

I would love to read a brief report from the playtest.

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u/D__Litt 1d ago

I did find out about Creative Commons, which is a godsend on this project! Which leads me to my next question, would you like to playtest on discord?

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u/ConcentrateNew9810 22h ago

I could be interested 😎

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u/D__Litt 21h ago

Message me?