Proposed Decks

Listed below are the proposed E&G Hardback Editions

I) Unknown Adventure -

   A) The Golden Sea
   B) The World Within
   C) Enter the Jungle
   D) The Darkest Science
   E) The Swashbucklers
   F) Lore of Briton

II) Fantastic Universe

   A) The Martian Crusades
   B) Never-Wonder Land
   C) Demons and Nightmares
   D) Gods and Mountains
   E) Fairy Magic Princess
   F) Of Elves and Giants

III) Mini-Expansions

   A) Manly Men

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I) Unknown Adventure -

A) The Golden Sea:

Black Bartlemy's Treasure
Treasure Island
Kidnapped
Moby Dick
Robinson Crusoe
Swiss Family Robinson
Black Beauty
Bluebeard

B) The World Within:

Pellucidar
The Lost World
Journey to the Center of the Earth
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Time Machine

C) Enter the Jungle:

Tarzan (pre-1923)
The Jungle Book
*Little Shop of Horrors
Land and Sea
Madagascar, Land of the Man-eating Tree

D) The Darkest Science:

Sherlock Holmes
Dracula
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Strange Case of Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde
Frankenstein
The Invisible Man
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Christmas Carol
*Night of the Living Dead
The Damnable Life and Death of Stubbe Peeter

E) The Swashbucklers:

The Three Musketeers
Man in the Iron Mask
Count of Monte Cristo
The Phantom of the Opera
Hunchback of Notre Dam
Poem of the Cid

F) Lore of Briton:

Le Morte D'Arthur
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Mabinogion
Ivanhoe
Yvain, the Knight and the Dragon
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight


II) Fantastic Universe -


A) TBA (The Martian Crusades):

***UNDER REVIEW***
Barsoom Series (John Carter, Pre-1923)
The War of the Worlds
Edison's Conquest of Mars


B) Never-Wonder Land:

The Wizard of Oz Series
Peter Pan Series
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
Wind in the Willows
Three Little Pigs

C) Demons and Nightmares:

Edgar Allen Poe Tales
H.P. Lovecraft Tales
Faust
The Cantebury Tales
Paradise Lost
Inferno

D) Gods and Mountains:

Thor and the Midgard Serpant
Gilgamesh
Odysseus
1001 Arabian Knights
Argonautica (Jason)
Beowolf

E) Fairy Magic Princess:

Beauty and the Beast
Red Riding Hood
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty
Rapunzel
The Dryad
The Mermaid Wife
Nasreddin Hodja
The Pied Piper
Hansel and Gretel
Midas

F) Of Elves and Giants:

Gullivers Travels
Thumbelinna
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs
Rumpelstiltskin
Tom Thumb
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Saga of Fergus mac Léti
Jack and the Beanstalk

III) Mini-Expansions -

A) Manly Men:

Davy Crocket
Daniel Boon
Pecos Bill
Paul Bunyan
Jesse James
Sam Hyde
John Henry
Johnny Appleseed
Ethan Allen
Casey Jones
Zorro
Allan Quatermain
Rip Van Winkle
Ichabod Crane
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Doctor Doolittle
Bigfoot Wallace
Wild Bill Hickock
Buffalo Bill

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Stories and characters not included:

Pinnochio
Br'er Rabbit
Many others to numerous to mention

Authors of Shorter Stories that may appear in parts:

Shakespere
Aesop
The Brothers Grimm
Mother Goose Tales
Hans Christian Anderson Tales

*Movies incorporated due to non-renewed copyright:

Night of the Living Dead
Little Shop of Horrors

Why I am very careful about Copyright Infringement

Why I am very careful about Copyright Infringement 

It’s been 54 years since an atomic blast awakened the slumbering reptilian monster Godzilla, and the fire-breathing, fin-tailed beast has been terrorizing downtown Tokyo ever since — in more than two dozen movies, on television and in comics and cartoons.

But Godzilla is a pussycat compared to the coterie of lawyers and investigators in Los Angeles and Japan who aggressively protect the radioactive behemoth from anyone who dares to appropriate his lizardly image for profit.

Hurling hundreds of lawsuits and takedown notices like so many fireballs, Godzilla’s owner — Toho Co. Ltd — has roasted Hollywood studios, automakers, toy manufacturers, rock bands, book publishers, national food chains, record labels, bloggers, wineries and just about anybody seen as capitalizing on the monster’s unique features, name or theme music. When it comes to policing trademarks and enforcing copyrights in the United States, intellectual property attorneys say Tokyo-based Toho is easily a match for Walt Disney, Fox and Lucasfilm in terms of courthouse zeal.

"I think they have got litigation in their reptilian DNA," says Jonathan Handel, a Hollywood IP lawyer. "They’re afraid that their intellectual property rights will suffer the same fate that Tokyo has in many Godzilla movies."

Nobody is immune. In 2002, Toho stomped on a Cabernet Sauvignon produced by Napa Valley’s Adler Fels Winery. The "Cabzilla" wine — its bottle labeled with a screeching Godzilla toting a glass of red — is no longer on the market. The winery’s inventory was destroyed in a legal settlement(.pdf). In 2003, Toho went after Yankee Stadium vendors for hawking Godzilla wares after the Yankees picked up Japanese baseball slugger Hideki Matsui, who is nicknamed "Godzilla." And this month, the company ordered Arizona rock band Asshole Godzilla to forfeit its internet domain and stop using Godzilla in its name.

Such legal jockeying is paying huge dividends. Toho, a diversified media concern whose income stems from movie theaters, Godzilla and other films, generates millions annually licensing Godzilla music, movies, toys, posters and other tie-ins. The company reported overall profits of 6.4 billion yen, about $66 million, for the half-year period ending Aug. 31.

Douglas Masters, a Chicago attorney charged with defending the intellectual property estate of Elvis Presley, says Toho "has been very aggressive. They take a broad view of their rights."

But the rampage of litigation, real and threatened, isn’t naked aggression. The company’s lawyers say they’re just trying to keep their flagship property from slipping into generic status. For Toho, too much unlicensed or misappropriated Godzilla could irrevocably free the monster from the protection of trademark law.

Read the rest here - http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/11/godzilla-terror/

The Martian Crusades Overview

Empires and Generals


E&G Hardback


Fantastic Universe


The Martian Crusades


Taken from

Edgar Rice Burrohs -
The Princess of Mars
The Gods of Mars
The Warlords of Mars
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
The Chessmen of Mars
The Mastermind of Mars

H.G. Wells -
War of the Worlds

Garrett P. Serviss -
Edison's Conquest of Mars

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------timeline including books------

John Carter visits Mars

(The Princess of Mars
The Gods of Mars
The Warlords of Mars
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
The Chessmen of Mars
The Mastermind of Mars)

(Here is where we must leave the public domain and not cross into the realm of licences owned by ERB.)

Kaldane Build an Army
Kaldane invade Earth
Kaldane die from bacteria

(War of the Worlds)

Kaldane re-invade Earth
Kaldane smash Earth
Earth Counter Attack

(Edison's Conquest of Mars)

War on Mars and Artificial Satellite Ceres

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Decks or Racial Groups

The Red Men
Helium
Zodenga
Ptarth
White Lotharians
Thark

Thern Devout
The Thern
Warhoon Mercenaries
Torquas Marksman
Thurd Mercenaries
Yellow

Post-First Contact Earth
Americans
Russians
Brittans
Germany
China
Japan
Siam
Ottomans

Horde
Kaldane & Evolved Rykor/Ceres hybrid mount
First Born & White Ape mount

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Technology

Red men - Manpower, Energy Weapons, Machinery, Fortresses

Thern Devout - Psionics, Energy Weapons, Fanatacism, Teleportation

Earth - "Disintegrator" Energy Weapon, Space-Ships, Massive Strength Augmentation

Horde - Energy Weapons, Tripod Destroyers, Space-Ships, Elite Warriors

E&G Hardback is hatched!

Hello everyone!

I will be making several expansions into the field of literature soon from the land of public domain stories written before 1923.

I've been waiting on several things in order to get ready for this, including some copyright information. several authors works I will only be able to release part of their series, some... the whole thing.

And it will be awesome.

The game Expansion: "E&G Hardback" will exist inside of a combined number of works that are under no USA copyright licence. The game will be played much the same as empires and generals family edition and the like but of course, will stay true to the novels and works as written by the authors themselves.

Ever find yourself watching an adaptation of one of the classics only to get frustrated with the artistic liberties that the innovators have created? Well, I do. I enjoy many a book, but when I want to go exploring with Tarzan or Long John Silver, I don't want anyone to retell the story for me. I would like it the original way that it was written.

So, with a little bit of demand, I will go ahead and start creating these.

After combing literature for the greatest classics that I could find, I've discovered perhaps eight sections where I can classify the works.

I've tried not to go back too far (with the exception of Demons and Nightmares / Gods and Mountains Expansions) because I wanted to get as close to science and a knowledge of the world as I could without crossing that terrible 1923 USA copyright infringement rule.

So, there are two divisions -

"Unknown Adventure" and "Fantastic Universe" with four theme-expansions each.


This is not an exact total. There will be some juggling.

The Two divisions will be made to play with each other inside their own division. For example: If you wanted the Pirates of Treasure Island to go up against a combined Frankenstein Dracula Deck, you sure could. Just make sure you bring enough bullets!