Your situation with what you plan to contribute seems fine to me and not copyright. Don’t listen to those thoughts. Unfortunately there are some instances where people should trust these guilty feelings and they may be stealing something. There was recently a big deal about this in the OSR specifically with a very popular creator who disappeared off the face of the earth due to being caught. Rightly so.
Yes, with that instance particularly the plagiarism was like, the entire contents and nature of certain tables, but more importantly: Without attribution or anything. Lots of the copying was also of Creative Commons work, but without asking or indicating. Luckily, I think I'll be avoiding that, both by indicating in the design notes and directly in the zine text which bits are inspired by what. I think I'll technically fall on the side of the good :)
And also, if I mess something up and copy inadvertently, I'm just happy to go "Yeah, I did that, big oops, I'll go fix that."
It's not weird at all. It's less common than it should be, but that's not quite the same thing. Shame and impostor syndrome are two of those things that keep people honest. I'm not suggesting that they're the most helpful or healthy ways of doing it but, since I'm not a saint, I've never met one and don't believe in the concept of sanctity in any real sense, I suppose most of us are stuck with the more negative pricks and spurs. What is the opposite of shame? Shamelessness. What's the antonym of impostor syndrome? Probably the Dunning-Kruger effect. If I was minded to be cruel, I would say it's easier for folks who know nothing and have read nothing blithely to assume their output is dazzlingly original. It only gets harder the more you know and assimilate. Sure, if possessed to an excessive degree, reticence (for whatever reason) can be deeply damaging to creative output and, for the record, I've binned far more than I've ever made 'public' (even in the sense of running homebrew stuff for a group of players), so I get it. But, on balance, I'd rather have read as widely as I have been able to than be numbly secure in my ignorance, and be thought an emotional cripple than an asshole.
With regards Lovecraft’s own creations you could look at the open source Mythos by Cthulhu Eternal. They've done a cracking job of wading through all the complicated copyright issues and made it freely available.
This is an absolutely sick resource. I have to create a couple of original Mythos Tomes, and when I found the Tomes section on Open Mythos I was like "Oh jackpot..."
Your situation with what you plan to contribute seems fine to me and not copyright. Don’t listen to those thoughts. Unfortunately there are some instances where people should trust these guilty feelings and they may be stealing something. There was recently a big deal about this in the OSR specifically with a very popular creator who disappeared off the face of the earth due to being caught. Rightly so.
Yes, with that instance particularly the plagiarism was like, the entire contents and nature of certain tables, but more importantly: Without attribution or anything. Lots of the copying was also of Creative Commons work, but without asking or indicating. Luckily, I think I'll be avoiding that, both by indicating in the design notes and directly in the zine text which bits are inspired by what. I think I'll technically fall on the side of the good :)
And also, if I mess something up and copy inadvertently, I'm just happy to go "Yeah, I did that, big oops, I'll go fix that."
It's not weird at all. It's less common than it should be, but that's not quite the same thing. Shame and impostor syndrome are two of those things that keep people honest. I'm not suggesting that they're the most helpful or healthy ways of doing it but, since I'm not a saint, I've never met one and don't believe in the concept of sanctity in any real sense, I suppose most of us are stuck with the more negative pricks and spurs. What is the opposite of shame? Shamelessness. What's the antonym of impostor syndrome? Probably the Dunning-Kruger effect. If I was minded to be cruel, I would say it's easier for folks who know nothing and have read nothing blithely to assume their output is dazzlingly original. It only gets harder the more you know and assimilate. Sure, if possessed to an excessive degree, reticence (for whatever reason) can be deeply damaging to creative output and, for the record, I've binned far more than I've ever made 'public' (even in the sense of running homebrew stuff for a group of players), so I get it. But, on balance, I'd rather have read as widely as I have been able to than be numbly secure in my ignorance, and be thought an emotional cripple than an asshole.
With regards Lovecraft’s own creations you could look at the open source Mythos by Cthulhu Eternal. They've done a cracking job of wading through all the complicated copyright issues and made it freely available.
This is an absolutely sick resource. I have to create a couple of original Mythos Tomes, and when I found the Tomes section on Open Mythos I was like "Oh jackpot..."
Thanks so much!!!!!!