» Wed Dec 05, 2012 12:46 pm
Clear parodies are considered free trade, like the various "... Abridged" series, or Red vs Blue. Game mods are a grey area, though, and in any case original content is unassailable.
I saw a Mario (as in Super Mario Bros) total conversion mod, though, that treated the whole thing as a dream the Dragonborn had when he slept in a particular bed.
And Ultima was one of the first, and certainly one of the best, computer RPGs back in the day. If anything, TES: Arena took inspiration from it.
And lots and lots of DnD