Yes, guessing they didn't intend to seem reductive, nor explain away authentic feelings, nor have anything seem a win-win for them.

My condolences on your loss in this respect, and trust you are dealing with everything as well as possible, in the circumstances. Much love.

Just time traveling here from 9 months ago, with this anachronistic reply… Is there an interplanar tavern where TW and SotS time travelers might meet? In a Sigil of sorts?

(The new Wizards time traveling DLC doesn't quite get there, but does venture time travelers aren't so surprising sometimes…)

Kudos. Also, great work on where to drop some Trilemma adventures into the UVG long map: coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2019/10/osr-...

Maybe #Trilemma-Adventures is in the zeitgeist. I stumbled upon all this stuff for the 1st time earlier this week. Now, I picked up the PDF today... Awesome deal!

Carefully note, some #trademark protection may have continued to exist, under common (judge-made) law, even without having filed any application. #TM rights arise via actual use of #distinctive marks in trade.

* Though I work as a trademark lawyer, this thread is not legal advice.

4/🧵 fin

(Notably, the app didn't list other books or any t-shirts, clothing, etc.)

If interested, you can review Wizards' new US TM application, for yourself, via this link:
tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=9...

3/4 #WotC

To file the US trademark application, Wizards declared a *bona fide* (good faith) intention to use the DARK SUN trademark, in US commerce, in association with the listed goods and services:
- Downloadable games
- Roleplaying games
- Online games

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"Roles do not merely involve thinking about engaging in such a role, and then enacting the role, in such a strict causal and temporal order. Narrative dramaturgy gave effect to the bi-directionality and shared impact of frontstage and backstage in engaging with roles."

- Fin -

10/10

"Participants showed that there was an abiding influence, which we called “visceral lingering”, to their role engagement and the empathy it was intended to impart"

9/10

"Emotion was shown to be a feature of displays of reflexivity. The emotional engagement – turmoil, in some cases – experienced and reported in the RPG, accompanied observations around the weight of [...] encounters and [...] decisions"

8/10

"It was the influence of others in the RPG – that is, sociability itself – that facilitated engagement in collaborative role play."

7/10

[Paraphrasing] ~ The collaborative and dramatic setting triggered engagement in the role. Immersive RPGs help participants connect to the experience on an emotional level that lasts beyond the time frame of the RPG ... ~

6/10

"At one point in time, engaging in the role play experience, the participants reflected on and changed their normal behavior (back stage) to that of the role they are portraying (front stage)"

5/10

"Participants reported that they perceived other participants in the RPG session to be convincingly “in-role”, which, in this interactive environment, in turn influenced them to engage deeply with their roles."

4/10

"Our findings show that embodied immersion into roles involves four particular dimensions: (i) role commitment; (ii) simultaneous evocation of front and back stages;
(iii) reflexivity; and (iv) visceral lingering."

3/10

"When a person enters any social setting, they consciously or unconsciously put into effect information about their roles in that setting as well as information about the roles of others." ~ Attributed to Erving Goffman (1922-1982)

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