As far as I know.. these books are GURPS books that follow closely with the Ghostbusters Plot (but never reference it for legal reasons). The books are probably part of “All Star Jams”, but only Lupo can say for sure.
The rules are for the GURPS system (There’s a free LITE version of the rules here… http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/lite/) but bits were taken from about 4 or 5 different sources and new content was added as well. There are pictures in it from all over the web as well as some drawings that he did himself - like tech drawings of the Ecto 1, 2 and 3.
One of the guys posted a PDF version at this usenet group… alt.binaries.e-book.rpg a few weeks ago, so it should still be there. Because it has some copyrighted material in it, our GM was nervous about releasing it to the general public.
Out of curiosity, did you seek the permission of the guy who made that CGI Ecto-1, or Sebastien Clavet over the use of the design of Slimer from his 88MPH series? Or Eddie Lebron for what appears to be one of the ghost designs he posted on a public forum?
The books look impressive, but I’m deeply concerned about where the content was collected from and if the proper permissions were given.
The books were created just for us. Except for these pictures I don’t think anyone else is going to see any more of them. He did credit the artists when he knew who they were, but a lot of the stuff was pulled from other people’s scans on the web.
He 's not distributing these or selling them so… :whatever:
Regardless though, it’s nice to see more RPG stuff. And it’s amusing, the ‘GURPS’ logo utilises the font used for the end credits of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II.
Note: the books shown above are a copyright violation and a violation of our trade dress.
The books themselves we’d simply ignore since they are limited to a small gaming group. I like the idea personally and think it’s wicked cool. I may have to do similar things with my groups.
Distributing the PDF is a outright criminal act: a violation of copyright law and trade dress. Please don’t distribute it further. We’re in the process of finding copies posted on the Internet to have them taken down. Sadly, usenet is a bit tricky to clean up.
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