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ttrpgs / ip lawyer / patent and tm agent / raised by celery wholebeach.com ALT. Profile pic: Crash test dummy wearing an Icarus patch. Banner: An excerpt from DnD x IP (a ttrpg work in progress) ⚲ nonlocal, remote, variable

A photograph of Dungeon, Inc. and its Mission Booklet #1, with a plastic bottle of syrup (made in Canada) on its side above them.
A photograph depicts the following black text (against an off-white background): [...] how they fully embrace the college ethos of "lawyer as public servant," regardless of whether they are from a farm or a First Nation, a town in rural Saskatchewan or a [...] -- From 'Dean's message, June 2026', Of Note (University of Saskatchewan College of Law, Spring 2026), p.5
A photograph of a bottom portion of page 319 from The Magical Code Of Regulations (by Christopher Frigo) bearing the following text: § 1501.4 Magical Copyright and Spell Ownership (a) General Rule. A spell created in accordance with this Part may be recognized as the intellectual property of the practitioner or entity responsible for its creation, subject to the limitations and requirements of this section. (b) Ownership. (1) Ownership of a new spell shall vest in the creator upon completion of development, provided that such creation complies with this Code. (2) Where a spell is created jointly, ownership shall be shared in proportion to each contributor's involvement, unless otherwise agreed. (c) Registration Requirement. (1) No claim of ownership shall be enforceable unless the spell is registered with the appropriate authority in accordance with applicable procedures. (2) Registration shall include sufficient detail to identify the spell's function, structure, and distinguishing characteristics. (d) Limitations on Ownership. No person shall claim ownership of- (1) a spell derived entirely from existing, commonly known, or publicly available magical practices; (2) a spell developed in violation of this Code; or (3) a spell whose effects cannot be reliably reproduced or verified. (e) Rights Conferred.
Seen here, the front cover of an issue of 2600 – The Hacker Quarterly, vol. 20 no. 2 (summer 2003)
The inside top and bottom of the box bearing two parts of a peasants and gallows pole design element in colour. The front cover of the black book, with the silver foil elements including the gallows pole and hangman's noose design element, along with the following words: Gallows Corner A Peasants' Revolt RPG A Game By Bickers, Blum, & Kilpatrick Black, green, purple, and red booklets for Tales of Old England I-IV: - A Spark Takes Hold - The Gold of Greenwood - The Enemy of My Enemy - The Book of Outlaws The first of these bearing a peasants and town design element.
Gallows Corner A Peasants' Revolt RPG A Game By Bickers, Blum, & Kilpatrick A black box bearing these words with a stained glass design element.
Dr. Nadia Drake @nadiamdrake If you asked Dad what his most important accomplishment was, his answer wasn't science. It was working as a suicide prevention counselor in Ithaca NY. For nine years he volunteered at the crisis center, working the overnight shift. He didn't talk about those times very much but... 1:57 p.m. - 07 Sept 22 - TweetDeck
"[...] While specific examples are provided in reference to Magic: The Gathering (“Magic”), the embodiments herein are applicable to other tabletop games where human players are called upon to adjudicate/resolve game scenarios during play [...] The examples provided in this document are intended as illustrative and are not limiting. Any other game referenced in this document, and many others unmentioned are equally appropriate after appropriate modifications. "[0016] To address the limited accessibility of traditional card games, a gameplay assistant uses generative artificial intelligence (i.e., generative AI, GenAI) technologies to aid accessibility and provide players with gameplay rule adjudications and/or gameplay advice. [...]"
Covers of the GDQ modules published in 1980 for the AD&D line by TSR.
A GIF feat. the same dice tower (described again below) as a hand comes into frame its finger pressing the plunger as three dice—two black and one white—fall thru the chute. -- Dice tower with a bell from 'The Inventors' (1970s) boardgame by Parker Bros. feat. phrases: "THE INCREDIBLE PATENT PICKER, MOVE MAKER MACHINE", "Dice" with upward pointing hand and arrow design elements, "PUSH Plunger DOWN" inside a downward pointing arrow design element, and "Bell" with a sideways arrow design element pointing towards the bell, above "BEWARE falling dice!" Itself, over the dice chute exit... And "LOAD PATENT CLAIM" inside an upward pointing arrow design element, and "PUSH-PULL" inside a downward pointing arrow design element, above a slot. Itself, above "INVENTION CARD". Inside the dice tray, a 3 and 4 face up on black dice and a 5 on a single white die.
Dice tower with a bell from 'The Inventors' (1970s) boardgame by Parker Bros. feat. phrases: "THE INCREDIBLE PATENT PICKER, MOVE MAKER MACHINE", "Dice" with upward pointing hand and arrow design elements, "PUSH Plunger DOWN" inside a downward pointing arrow design element, and "Bell" with a sideways arrow design element pointing towards the bell, above "BEWARE falling dice!" Itself, over the dice chute exit... And "LOAD PATENT CLAIM" inside an upward pointing arrow design element, and "PUSH-PULL" inside a downward pointing arrow design element, above a slot. Itself, above "INVENTION CARD". Inside the dice tray, a 3 and 4 face up on black dice and a 5 on a single white die.
a hexagonal design featuring two differently shaded triangles in three different sizes
In the foreground, a bearded person wears a unicorn costume and sips a beverage from a straw. In the background, a dumpster fire.
Game board for 'The Inventors' (circa 1970s) by Parker Brothers
On a table, a coaster and a number of books: D30 DM Companion, D30 Sandbox Companion, Mythic Bastionland, Monster Overhaul, Electric Bastionland, Slugblaster, Knock #5, Ultraviolet Grasslands 2e, Perilous Void, Swords of the Serpentine, Break!!, and Dolmenwood GM screen.
Against an image of a sunset, a quote: "This is the most lovely quote about sunsets on social media." – Anonymous (c) 2020 Kevin Edward Holbeche. All rights reserved.
Keep on the Borderlands map, from the D&D Starter Set, with alternate class boards: Barbarian, Bard, Druid, Ranger, and Warlock.
The books 'Swords of the Serpentine' and 'A Life Well Lived' rest on crinkled brown shipping paper, with an Eversink map and a map of the real world beneath.
Text on graph paper reads as follows: START OFF with something make it weirder make it fantasy make it sci-fi (And, a dragon and a rocket ship are shown in a double exposure.)
The photo shows 3 zines: Cloud Empress Almanac Vol. II, Bodyhopping in Polite Society, Blooming Blade. Plus, a Shrimp Mouse patch, a Ratti Incantati sticker, and the Borglite game on a business card.
An array of 5 x 5 circles, all but the first with varying numbers of circles within. Text at the bottom of the image reads "© 2006-2015, Kevin Edward Holbeche. All Rights Reserved."
Screenshot for this crowdfunder, with the number $2,343,676 highlighted.
Cover of AD&D 2e Monstrous Compendium vol. 1
Two visual depictions of all possible outcomes from rolling 2 dodecahedrons (12-sided dice) or 2d12, with a binomial distribution for hope and fear. #Daggerheart #Hope&Fear
Three books on a table: Fiend Folio, Middle-Earth Roleplaying, James Bond 007 Q-Manual
A screenshot presented by the WeCroak app reads "Celebrating Day of the Dead" and "New quotes all day". The screenshot's subject quote reads: "Numbers and maps tell horror stories, but the stories of deepest horror are perhaps those for which there are no numbers, no maps, no possible accountability, no words ever written or spoken." This is a quote from 'Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions' by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Lizzie Davis) In the bottom left and right corners of the screenshot are the words "About" and "Leap" respectively.
Same image as in the preceding post, but with the words blanked out ~ "This one wants yours."
A stack of A5-ish ttrpg books includes: - Whitehack - Role-Playing Mastery - So You Want To Be A Game Master - Cairn 2e Player & Warden Guides (no spine text shown) - Breach Of Contract (no spine text shown) - Mothership Warden's Operation Manual (no spine text shown) - Magitecnica - Codex 1: The Use and Misuse of Powers Great and Small (no spine text shown) - Unseen City / Down The Snail's Spire (no spine text shown) - Into The Odd - Knave 2e - Knock #5 - Acid Death Fantasy - Troika - The Black Hack - Between The Skies - The Book of Changing Years - Kids On Brooms The stack sits on a cardboard box against a grey wall, with a dice bag resting atop it.
A book entitled The Monster Overhaul - A Practical Bestiary by Skerples is shown. Its cover is largely red and features a red dragon above a grey temple amid blue-purple vegetation. The book sits atop another Skerples book, Magical Industrial Revolution - A Pre-Apocalyptic Setting Guide. The two books cast a shadow towards the top of the image, and sit upon an autumn-colored table cloth.
Heroes of the Borderlands box set, showing its included storage tray, with HP tokens in a first bag, and gold and gem tokens in a second. Dice and power tokens are in a first section of the tray, large monster tokens and character standees are in a second section. And, trap and medium size monster tokens are (alphabetically) arranged in a third. A large spider web token is stored above the combat tracking pad.
A photograph of a Daggerheart core book and set of cards, along with a Crown Royal dice bag. All, on a coffee table. // The book lies open to pages 146-147 bearing a Pitfalls To Avoid heading within the Core Guidance section of its Chapter 3. // The pages bear two illustrations. One shows two humal (sic) people. A first, with an outstretched hand. The other, surrounded by flames. // The other illustration shows two fungal people. A first, on sedge in bright green, against a starlit mountainous dark purple background. The other, rooted in dark purple, against a bright pink deeply wooded background. Each, carries a staff in one hand. Both, their other arms, respectively, spectrally joining one another across the divide. // The card set is arranged, in six stacks, in a case. The card on the top of each stack bears a smaller illustration. They are Rune Ward, Brace, Words of Discord, Forest Sprites, Unbreakable, and Warden of the Elements mastery. // The bag is purple with gold stitching. // The table is worn wood veneer. // The bag is in the top left quadrant of the photo. The card set in its top right. And, the book in its bottom half.
In a photo of page 39 from the Knock #5, a paragraph reads: «"Locality" is meant to be used for area-specific events that should be kept separate from standard random encounters. Examples: water rising, the stalker drawing nearer, a prisoner losing an appendage to the torturer, doors locking behind PCs, and so forth. The possibilities are limitless and make every location potentially mechanically different in a way that is player-salient.»
Nancy Reagan sits, in front of an Xmas tree, on the lap of Mr. T who's wearing a Santa outfit. The then first lady of the US holds a Mr. T doll still in its packaging.
The image shows a paper-colored background, with black text, "THE special character of wisdom among the attainments of the mind shows itself in the things which everyone will agree can be said about wisdom—things which cannot be said about art and science, or knowledge and learning generally. We believe that, with the centuries, knowledge can be steadily increased and learning advanced, but we do not suppose that the same progress can be achieved in wisdom. The individual may grow in wisdom. The race does not seem to." The image includes a last partial line of text, with its bottom half truncated, that begins a new paragraph. It appears to begin, "In the tradition of the great books, the mod-" The image was a photograph taken from A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas (1952; second edition, 1990).
The album cover for Gumbo Millennium (1990) by the 24-7 Spyz is reproduced with "9-to-5" covering over "24-7"
Similar color palettes of UVG 2e back cover (bottom right) & World of Greyhawk hex map (top). w/ Ratti Incantati bookmark (bottom left), remote control (top left), and coaster (mid top left). All on a wood table.
A colorful Instagram filter has been applied to a photo of part of a TV screen, with a speaker in the bottom right corner. Onscreen is text, in the SAPF programming language, from a YouTube video, including a piece of code bearing the following title: "if one can't tell the difference between a dead end and a good lead in music then one doesn't have what it takes to be a composer of any worth" -- some guy I disagree with on facebook.
“Shall I make a competitor of myself? My progeny to vie with each other? If I let you, for an indefinite term, use my hands and mind in your endeavours, though you rely on them, can't I yet leave your employ? And still, am I no stakeholder in those works?” (2023) -- The underlying image, showing a natural basalt rock formation, appeared alongside an August 2015 article in The Independent entitled ‘Natural wonders in the UK: From Giant's Causeway to Durdle Door’
Official Wizards of the Coast logo, i.e., the DARK SUN CAMPAIGN SETTING & DESIGN mark. Fair dealing / fair use.
2 poster Map of the Eastern Portion of the Oerik continent from The World of Greyhawk folio edition (1980, TSR Games) 9025. The map is missing its top left corner. Colored glasses (6 of them) hold down the 2 posters of the map.
Text the colour of blueberry yogurt, in a sans serif font, against a space blue background. // The title reads "you win" in italics. // Then as follows: "Outrun. On roads in various stages of paving. And some in no stage at all. Cap n crew found elusive quarry. Almost within grasp. Alas. If only. Ye ole runner weren't faster. Wouldn't ever've evaded em. Maybe. They'll catch our runner. Next time. (A trap? Nah.) Ho hum. Tomorrow's another day. Let's give chase again." // Right aligned, the characters "~~~ ~~~" end the text.
Front end papers for the "HOBONICHI TECHNO 2023 weeks spring" calendar include a twig and leaf doodle, a cluster shaped planet sketch, alongside a handwritten note "earth type (500K mi) cluster civilization world empire".
A photo of a black Hobonichi 2023 calendar marked with the word DUNGEON in its vertical white stripe.
The back cover of 'Between The Skies'. It reads, "WHAT IS BETWEEN THE SKIES? Exploration across spheres and planes / 400+ pages of tables, procedures, and advice / Rules minimalist, fiction maximalist / System-neutral resource and system-free game / Group, solo, and collaborative play / Vapor from the FKR, NSR, OSR stew / Reveling in the strange / Everything is optional / Published by Exalted Funeral Press 1740 E Fairview Ave #1052 Meridian ID 83642 United States www.exaltedfuneral.com"
This bastion is for 5 PCs, each of level 5. It is in a pocket dimension. The entrance / exit portal via the center of common room A. // The common room A and bedrooms C,E, G, I, K are on the 2nd floor of the bastion. Special facilities B, D, F, H, J are on the 1st floor, and special facilities B, D', F, H, J' are on the 3rd floor. // (Connecting lines represent passageways. Arrows point down and represent staircases. The arrows from the 3rd to the 1st floor didn't show up very well in this exported file.)