robertsconley
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When I contracted with Goodman Games for my Points of Light book, I was offered a lump sum for all rights or I could keep the rights and accept a royalty. I opted to keep the right. And the rights I had was only to the text and my maps. I did not have any rights to brand name "Points of Lights", nor did I have any rights to the art or how the books were presented. So I can take any of the eight setting I created and the maps and use them elsewhere but with new art and a different layout. I did not make as much as I would with the lump sum but my hands are not tied on what I can do with my own original idea.With the smaller publishers, it seems more complicated. With someone like Arion Games, from what Graham has said I think Fighting Fantasy is still owned by Jackson/Livingstone. But I'd assume that the books that Graham has written himself are copyright Arion with the FF license paid for.
I am doing that for the first time with my first Majestic Fantasy Realms project. I wrote Southland first and then later Blackmarsh. I designed Blackmarsh so it fits along Southland's northern border. In my upcoming project I have combined the two on one of the four maps. The project is basically the below fleshed out into four bigger maps, redrawn in color, and polished up.