>
> David to Jeff:
>
> >> anyone remember ... what happened to HeroQuest originally.
>
> > Not only don't I remember, I don't believe I ever knew. What
happened
> > to the original boardgame?
>
> That's not *quite* what Jeff meant. Greg & Chaosium spent the
eighties
> talking about publishing a game called "HeroQuest", but they never
did
> anything about it. At the end of the eighties, those charming folk
at
> Games Workshop nicked the unused name for a dungeon-bashing
boardgame.
>
> The Games Workshop IP Policy is here, BTW:
> http://www.games-workshop.com/ippolicy.htm
>
> Cheers, Nick
Yep. That's exactly it, Nick. And that policy is... draconian.
But hey, at least its not like, say, Palladium who tend to send cease
and desist orders to folks fairly regularly.
Jeff