[Agonar]

Since there were only a very few amount of the Brony Edition printed, any chance of allowing for a POD copy of the book with that cover from Drive-thru?  My son is into Shadowrun, and has been watching MLP on Netflix, so I think it would be cool if I could get ahold of a copy somehow

[Critias]

As far as I know, it's not even what would really be called an "edition."  There were a handful printed custom as a joke (mostly at the expense of Jason Hardy, our boss).  Who knows what kind of tangled mess of licensing and property rights and stuff it'd take to get "real" copies printed?

[Namikaze]

WTF is Agonar talking about?  Why would anyone have a Brony Edition of Shadowrun?  Mind you, I'm familiar with what a Brony is...  but that seems like it's ludicrous.

[Critias]

WTF is Agonar talking about?  Why would anyone have a Brony Edition of Shadowrun?  Mind you, I'm familiar with what a Brony is...  but that seems like it's ludicrous.

I'm not sure how to respond to this other than by point up-screen to the post I made just before yours.  A very small number of in-joke Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, books were printed, with "Brony" covers.  I know I'm not the only one that uploaded a picture to the interwebs while Jason got his, so a Google Image search should find you the cover art, etc. 

[Namikaze]

Why would anyone actually want to pay money for that though?  I get that it was a joke, but the OP sounds serious.

[Agonar]

Yes, I am serious.  It would make an awesome novelty copy of the game, and if I wasn't willing to spend money on obtaining one, I wouldn't have asked about the potential of a POD version, since I doubt one of the developer gifts would ever show up on eBay or anything.

[Namikaze]

I don't know if what you're asking for would rightly be called an Edition.  It sounds like this was an internal joke, and never intended to be sold.  As Critias pointed out, the licensing alone would be a nightmare.

[Sendaz]

The inside was same SR its just the Cover and back of the book they are really after with the Cyberpunked up MLP with the Ancients tat on the front with some other pics on the back.

And yeah, don't even want to think what hoops you have to jump through for that licensing....

[PeterSmith]

Since there were only a very few amount of the Brony Edition printed, any chance of allowing for a POD copy of the book with that cover from Drive-thru?

Nope.

[CanRay]

ShadowBronies still scare me.   

[Michael Chandra]

Still better than Sheep.

[Leevizer]

Wouldn't it be possible to, say, get scans of the front cover, back cover and perhaps the spine of the book and make your own sleeve for the rulebook?

I mean, that should be more legal, especially if it's not done for profit and would basically be a fan product... Which would obviously be downloadable for free?

Or, you know, just sell those Brony editions online and get enough funding from crazy bronies to actually get the licensing done and publish a legit version.

PS. Only the first two lines of this message should be taken seriously.

[PeterSmith]

Wouldn't it be possible to, say, get scans of the front cover, back cover and perhaps the spine of the book and make your own sleeve for the rulebook?

I mean, that should be more legal, especially if it's not done for profit and would basically be a fan product... Which would obviously be downloadable for free?

No, and no. It's still licensed property from Hasbro, even if there is no money involved.

[Leevizer]

Wouldn't it be possible to, say, get scans of the front cover, back cover and perhaps the spine of the book and make your own sleeve for the rulebook?

I mean, that should be more legal, especially if it's not done for profit and would basically be a fan product... Which would obviously be downloadable for free?

No, and no. It's still licensed property from Hasbro, even if there is no money involved.

And what about the tons of fan-made material posted on sites like Deviantart and such daily? How would this be different?

[Michael Chandra]

There's a big difference between fair use by individuals and one company using the other company's licensed property.