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When DGP when out of business, Roger Sanger bought the copyright to all their material. Roger was going to publish a game called AI (never appeared), and announced several other such products which never apparently got beyond the annoucement stage. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>
actually, many got to the detailed concept and setting development. And he inherited AI with the copyrights, and the debt for prepaid copies. And still owes a great many of us copies of it.
Given this track record, it's unlikely Roger will ever reprint the old material himself.
Over the years a number of people have contacted Roger about buying copyrights to DGP materials. The asking price has always been obsenely high (multiple hundred of thousands of dollars) and/or equivelent in work on Rogers latest project.
The people dealing with Roger have discovered he is a flake. He stops answering e-mail and phone mail for weeks, if he ever responds again.
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you forgot:
-> Fails to pay internet bills, so addresses change often.
-> On the run from several creditors, so addresses change when they find him.
-> can't find funding to do anything with what he has, let alone pay his bills.
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If you want more up to date details, search the TML archives on http://tml.travellercentral.com/ , for Roger Sanger: this dicussion came up at the beginning of this year.
The feeling of the Traveller community in the know is the DGP materials are gone. And while there was some fine materials there, there was also some pretty stinky stuff. And all the current Traveller authors are simply writing around it, incorporating the good stuff and dumping the bad.
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Some of us (with all the DGP materials, no less) feel DGP's work was simply the best stuff ever released. Hopefully, Roger will forget to renew the copyrights. 5 more years.... (some items are already falling for renewal... unfortunately, these items are covered by later derivative work copyrights...)
additionally, Roger can't reprint them; he neither retained nor was granted anew a traveller license. And they contain far too many trademarks and related indicia to do without a license.
To me, A DGP product (of the Pre-Sanger era) was one of the best assurances of quality writing. I'd take the DGP team over
ANY OTHER TRAVELLER AUTHOR OUT THERE!!!. Except MWM, and then it's a tie. (Can you tell I really am a MT fan?)
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-aramis
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