This isn’t about taking inspiration from plots of other works, but I’m interested in trying to get mine and @generalsquishy’s first game Baguette Quest hosted and I’m wondering if I need to change a couple of things due to copyright rules that I’m ignorant about.
In our game there’s a very minor character named Smeegle who is a strange doppelganger of one of the kings in the story, behaves somewhat like Smeagol from LOTR and at one point says “stupid hobbitses”, though that’s really the extent of the similarities. Also, the castle of that king is basically IKEA but repurposed as a castle, blue building with a giant yellow IKEA sign and all, full of Swedish furniture and with a layout based on the general IKEA layout. It’s a pretty lighthearted game, if you can’t tell already
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I’m wondering if either of these would pose an issue with trying to get the game hosted? I really don’t know anything about this sort of thing and don’t want to run into any issues.
