A Vague Background
So the day of cannonfodder action films recycling the same cluster of tropes damning has come. Future films will need to be so unique that they will be inherently alien to cinema goers. While that will be a rock to the head for film companies regurgitating variations on kaiju emerges from ocean to devastate population centre only to be put down by millitary after quirky band of heroes lure creature into killbox, or as far as this court declared: cynical hero forced to drop one way into prison to save president/president's daughter from convict population.
The Fallout
Given the flow on for other fields like ROLEPLAY games where the heroes journey is regurgitated as often as a dragon and a dungeon this could see tropes 'owned' by the first game company to create them or patent them.
The Riddle of Steel
Lets face facts. While gygax and arneson are the gods of this mythos, dungeons and dragons is the culmination of fourty years of game play by millions of people. We have a riddle of steel moment where gods may have created iron, but men created steel...and it was better.
What this court is saying is we owe the gods for the Iron in our swords. Homage be damned.
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