Loriel,
Absolutely valid points. I'm suggesting, however, that *many* authors probably prefer to turn a blind eye to such works. It's like the Bugblatter Beast of Traal - all apologies to the estate of Douglas Adams. If you wear a towel over your head, the beast can't see you. Remove the towel, and you get eaten. Who's the towel-wearer and who's the beast? That depends - sometimes it's the author and sometimes it's the creator of the derivative work. If you don't know it's there, it can't hurt you. If they call attention to themselves, you must acknowledge their existence and risk legal exposure if a game's ideas somehow end up in your work of fiction.
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