table top halo rpg

[blaze7736]

hi i am in the process of making a full halo rpg based on well halo and dungeons and dragons i am i need of some art work as i am really bad at drawing on the computer but i would love to have your ideas. i am i need of some great futuristic pictures and if you have any you want me to try an add it would be great i will be giving a digitel copy to the best ones but i do hope that you dont spread it around but i would love to hear your ideas if you want any thing added or even maps if your into that thing.

[dragonshardz]

First, please learn to use English.

Second, if you're looking for Halo art there's a great deal of it available through a simple Google search. I'm sure the owners of Halo's intellectual property rights (Microsoft) would be more than willing to license their art and concepts for commercial use in a fan-created d20 system tabletop roleplaying game.

If you're making this for personal use, then you have little need of art and just need stat blocks for the different NPC, enemies, vehicles, gear, and so on. I'd recommend looking at d20 Future for a good baseline to use for making custom weapon and vehicle statblocks.

[blaze7736]

thank you sorry about the english i am verey bad at spelling but can speak and read fine but there is no spell check on the forums

now your second comment is a good one i would love to use art from google but i dont really understand the copy rights on that how should i apply to get rights as i am planning to make this comercial ps do you think it will sell or is a good idea

[dragonshardz]

Most modern browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) have built-in spellcheck. If you're bad at writing, you really shouldn't be trying to make a commercially distributed RPG until you've improved your literary skills by quite few orders of magnitude.

As to using the images you find through a Google search, the thing to do copyright-wise would be to first contact Microsoft and ask for their permission to create a tabletop RPG based on the Halo franchise. Their answers will depend on a wealth of varying factors, such as potential market demand and possible prior agreements regarding the creation of your theoretical tabletop RPG. Then you'd have to hire a cabal of legal experts to define the contract between yourself and Microsoft, which would include how much money each entity would get. You'd also have to make a company and have it become well known for quality tabletop RPGs before Microsoft would consider your proposal to make a Halo-based tabletop RPG for more than a second.

Once all that's sorted out - call it 5 years to go from startup to respected tabletop publisher and another 2 years to finalize the agreements with Microsoft, wou'd have to spend up to another 2 years developing and playtesting the game. Then, once you're ready to publish it in hardcover with art, you'll need to contact each and every artist whose art you use and obtain their permission to use their art in exchange for a portion of the profits from your game. That's assuming that since you're a respected tabletop RPG publisher in 2022 you don't have a stable of artists to make art for you.

So, good luck on that! Let us know in eight to nine years how this goes for you, and best of luck!

[blaze7736]

thank you for your input but this is why i am looking for fan made art the game is not completley like halo and i will have to design my own names and stuff but my first ideas came from halo and how i saw that no one has made one yet so yes it is based on aspects of halo but it is really just a space version of D & D which yes has been done but i hope to make one which works on a good basic system so as i have asked before i need art work and to not vialat copyrights i am looking for fan made art and anything people wish to help make this i am also opon for ideas so any suggestions on conten for the game plese leave a comment.

ps i am only using windows explorer so there is no spell check and word dose have a spell check so i should be fine

[Xylord]

Most modern browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) have built-in spellcheck. If you're bad at writing, you really shouldn't be trying to make a commercially distributed RPG until you've improved your literary skills by quite few orders of magnitude.

As to using the images you find through a Google search, the thing to do copyright-wise would be to first contact Microsoft and ask for their permission to create a tabletop RPG based on the Halo franchise. Their answers will depend on a wealth of varying factors, such as potential market demand and possible prior agreements regarding the creation of your theoretical tabletop RPG. Then you'd have to hire a cabal of legal experts to define the contract between yourself and Microsoft, which would include how much money each entity would get. You'd also have to make a company and have it become well known for quality tabletop RPGs before Microsoft would consider your proposal to make a Halo-based tabletop RPG for more than a second.

Once all that's sorted out - call it 5 years to go from startup to respected tabletop publisher and another 2 years to finalize the agreements with Microsoft, wou'd have to spend up to another 2 years developing and playtesting the game. Then, once you're ready to publish it in hardcover with art, you'll need to contact each and every artist whose art you use and obtain their permission to use their art in exchange for a portion of the profits from your game. That's assuming that since you're a respected tabletop RPG publisher in 2022 you don't have a stable of artists to make art for you.

So, good luck on that! Let us know in eight to nine years how this goes for you, and best of luck!

Man Dragon, you're an amazing troll. Loving it.

[NightKev]

Man, trolling with the truth... it's sad that such a thing is reality.

Also, skimmed through his post and saw this gem: "ps i am only using windows explorer so there is no spell check and word dose have a spell check so i should be fine"

He's using windows explorer to browse the web? Is this even possible? ARE we in reality?

[blaze7736]

okay so i am being trolled but if any one can be a bit more helpfull it would be great i need art work for my game and i am trying not to breach copy right laws. and can you plese just answer me this is it a good idea this game

[NightKev]

You'll never get copyright approval. Yes you're being trolled, but nothing he said was false.

[dragonshardz]

Man Dragon, you're an amazing troll. Loving it.

Oh man, I'm so glad you're here. I thought no one would ever see this and all my effort would go to waste.

blaze, I'll be honest here: I'm only semi-trolling you. You are awful at written English. That's your first problem. You will never ever ever in a million years get permission from either artists or Microsoft to make a commercially distributed tabletop RPG or to use their art, respectively, because your command of English as a written language is a clusterfuck of awful.

Secondly, if it's not going to be the Halo RPG, why bother? There's already a fuckton and a half of sci-fi RPG settings out there. Use one of those and just call things by different names. As an aside, if Microsoft were to make a Halo RPG, why would they bother hiring someone completely unknown to do it? WoTC is more likely to get the rights for a Halo RPG than you are. Hell, white Wolf (now wholly owned by CCP) is more likely than you.

Thirdly, you really really don't need art for your homebrew Halo RPG. It's unnecessary, and I say this as a guy who custom built a Dead Space RPG for personal use.

If you're going to make this solely for personal use, maybe share the statblocks with your friends, you don't need art. Anyone can do a simple Google search to get an idea of what a Warthog looks like, for example. If you're dead set on making money from this, it is going to take a very very long time.

[blaze7736]

as i am saying it is not a complet copy of halo at all it was just inspired by halo so thats why i would just like some fan made art i can use and any suggestions you have that is should include but your other comments have been usefull and i thank you for taking at least an intrest

[NightKev]

If it's not even going to be Halo... then you need neither art from Halo nor copyright permissions and whatnot from Microsoft/etc, obviously.

[Lethosos]

Go play Star HERO, that's the closest you're gonna get to a system that does all of these things besides artwork.

[Chefsbrian]

Speaking as as a artist, why would I offer my art for a commercial project without promise of compensation. Sounds like your asking for original pieces, and I'd like to be paid for the pieces. If it's a free little thing as either between friends or for open distribution, then take them off the web, Google 'em, etc. Not to mention making a good sci fi rpg game would require a good universe, established "rules" for the tech, and the like. Provide all that, and maybe I might have some interest in this.

Also, get chrome, or Firefox, or opera. Or a dictionary. Or disconnect the cable in the back of the computer, it is what's blocking autocorrect.

[Kingfisher1112]

Nothing I can say adds anything that has not already been said by the rest of the people in the thread. They are telling the truth bro.