Legal Protections

References to any Trademarks, Registered Trademarks or Copyrights held by any company or individual on this web site are for non-profit, promotional and recreational use only. Use of these terms should not be construed as a challenge to their ownership.

Translation: Most people think, "What the hell does that mean?!?" It's legal-ese for, "We may need to mention the name of a Game System, like DnD 3rd Edition for example, because the Game we plan to run refers to these rules. Don't sue us for this, please!"

Statements like the one above might seem anally retentive, but companies tend to become annoyed when their hard work is plagiarised or ripped off... We'd like to make it clear that we're interested only in writing and running Games, and promoting Role-Playing!

Intellectual Property

Games published and written by Pointless Mental Cruelty are © Copyright and remain the intellectual property of their respective authors.  No parts of these documents shall be reproduced, distributed, or performed for commercial use.

Permission is granted for private performance and non-commercial use of these documents.

The intellectual property on this web site, including documents published or written by Pointless Mental Cruelty and its members, is held by the authors.

Please note that some Games published by Pointless Mental Cruelty may be suitable for mature readers due to the themes explored within, or satirical in nature. This is indicated on Page 2 (the Acknowledgements Page) of the document.

Translation: When we publish any of the Games we've written on-line, feel free to run them (that's why we publish them!). PMC asks that you contact us before publishing or selling any material we make available on our site.  To be honest, only God knows why you'd want to do that!?!  Also, if you make money from what we write, apart from charging a minimal fee to cover your costs, we'd like to know about it!

Open Gaming Licence

All Covered Products using the d20 System published by Pointless Mental Cruelty display the d20 System Logo, or in the specific case of an ASCII text file, include the words “A d20 System Licensed Product.”

Dungeons & Dragons, Player's Handbook, d20 Modern, Psionics Handbook, Urban Arcana, 'd20 System' and the 'd20 System' logo are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. in the United States and other countries and are used with permission.

'd20 System' and the 'd20 System' logo are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. and are used according to the terms of the d20 System License version 6.0.  A copy of this License can be found at www.wizards.com/d20.

Games using the d20 System require the use of a Roleplaying Game Core Book published by Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

At some stage Pointless Mental Cruelty may publish a Game that uses the d20 system^TM. The above text is in compliance with the current Open Gaming Licence trademark guide published by Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

Please take a look at the links below for more information on the Open Gaming Licence.

Graphics and Images

Original artwork contained on this web site or documents written by Pointless Mental Cruelty is © Troy Thornton, Alex White and Pointless Mental Cruelty.

The PMC Logo is © Michelle Steele and Pointless Mental Cruelty.

All other artwork is Microsoft clip-art, available from http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/ unless otherwise acknowledged.

Web Site

www.pointlessmentalcruelty.com and our e-mail account is kindly hosted by the legendary people at vurt.net

This web site uses a php script called Cactus relating to the form on our Contact Page, © Tengu Technologies, available from www.tengutech.net

This web site uses a javascript effect called Switch Content Script on our Games Page, available from
www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/switchcontent.htm

This web site uses a javascript effect called Lightbox V2.03.3 on our Awards & Photos Page, available from
www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/

Acknowledgements

• PMC would like to thank the various Gaming Conventions across Australia that have allowed us to participate for their kind support.  Support's always appreciated!

• Thanks (once again) to Troy and Alex for the artwork theyve designed for us!

• Thanks to all of the Players who've taken a risk and participated in a Pointless Mental Cruelty Game!

• And finally, thanks to Mark and Shell for compiling this web site!