Legal Dogma*, acknowledgements and related stuff:
Text, graphics, HTML and any other fancy? programming or design? (that's pushing it) associated with the Decklin's Domain website at www.decklinsdomain.com , www.decklinsdomain.net , www.decklinsdomain.org or www.decklinsdemise.com is/are copyright© 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Decklin's Domain, all rights reserved, with many exceptions as noted below. Many photographs are copyright© 2001, 2002, 2003 , 2004, 2005, 2006Richard Whitwell and used by permission. We may well have missed a required acknowledgement or three, if so, please accept our sincere apologies ... contact us here if you spot any omissions or mistakes. Assume NONE of the graphics or photographs are in the Public Domain - write to us if you want to use them, do not use them without written permission or acknowledgement and a link back to this site.
Decklin's Domain is a personal web-site reflecting the interests and whims of Decklin (The Twisted Dwarf) as he is known by a few dedicated players of DEMISE: Rise of the Ku'Tan. The site(s) is/are currently/have been hosted on Microsoft's bCentral USA, Loosefoot Hosting Canada (where ASP and PERL and CGI can be experimented with and often are.) and at Hostway, U.K. None of these organizations have any responsibility for this and associated sites and vice versa. A bulletin board is also maintained at Ezboard, the same proviso applies. Many thanks to Blue Knight, Dogg, Lappen, Moroth, Sortiri and Spyfox also for their support and assistance and also to the 300 or so users of the board.
All of the above however, including the never-ending supply of "[Insert your own subject] for Dummies" books as well as various server and PC upgrades, exceed Decklin's allowance and so a large number of affiliate links have appeared over time in hopes that eventually a balance may be achieved. The downside of this (for you, the reader who hates commercials) is that they are unavoidable on many pages BUT we do not intentionally allow pop-ups. Another downside for those of you who may see something of interest advertized is that we have no responsibility for the merchants nor their treatment of you, the consumer, or for the quality of any goods you purchase. Let the buyer beware! (I'd have said it in Latin but I only took French and German at school.)
The upside is that we have dealt with many of the companies and products that appear on this site (all in "Dungeon Tested Software" for example) and we DO want to hear of any bad experiences or other problems.
[ decklin@pacbell.net until we have a dedicated address for service :) ]
If there's something you would like to comment on feel free to write too.
* Couldn't resist the pictogram ... sorry
Trade Marks or Word Marks: References are made to game titles etc which may in themselves be trade or word marks (registered or unregistered). Those include (but won't be limited to) ~
Advanced Dungeons &
Dragons®, Dragonlance™, Forgotten
Realms™, TSR™
all are trademarks of TSR, Inc. a subsidiary of Wizards of
the Coast, Inc.
Betrayal at Krondor™,
Return to Krondor™ are trademarks of Sierra Inc.
Construction Set™, Electronic
Arts®™ The
Bard's Tale®™ The Destiny Knight™ The Thief of Fate™ are trademarks of
Electronic Arts
Demise™, Horizons™
are trademarks of Artifact Entertainment LLC
Dragon Wars™, Icewind Dale™, Interplay™, are
trademarks of Interplay
Productions.
The Bard's Tale © 1985-1998 Interplay Productions. All rights reserved.
Dragon Wars © 1989 Interplay Productions. All rights reserved.
Stonekeep © 1995 Interplay Productions. All rights reserved.
Stonekeep
programmed by Peter Oliphant.
Bane of the Cosmic Forge, Crusaders
of the Dark Savant © 1990 - 1998 1259190 Ontario Inc.
All rights reserved.
Wizardry®™ is
a registered trademark of 1259190 Ontario Inc.
Thanks for permission to prepare and use sound clips from published works and to download and/or scan materials from web-sites, from Elaine Dempsey, Wendy DeWitt, Noelle Hampton Eugene Huggins & Cole Tate
Photographs of Cole Tate by Lifesignsphoto reproduced with permission.
Many people and institutions have contributed to this portion of the site, not least of all are Brookhaven National Laboratory for permission to use their original photographs; Anne Marie Powell and Mark Poppen for the original poetry they have submitted, Stefanie Gold for permission to publish her original fantasy artwork and many other web-people for all kinds of interesting "stuff".
First of all, thanks to Moreover for the
news feeds (providing similar services on the Games and Music floors) and to
those people whose emails I have sometimes just posted wholesale on the site.
Erorrs and Ommissions
The site has them a'plenty we will do our best to fix any you point out. Hmmm .... where's the spellchecker?
Audiobooks Notes
Decklin's Domain is an authorized dealer for Worldtainment® Audiobooks. The books are recorded and published at the Worldtainment studios in New York. While most if not all of the Classics are no longer subject to Copyright, Worldtainment clearly has rights , and reserves them, as publisher and producer.
We do collect email addresses and other data in the course of selling audiobooks, comics, games, music and webservices. We use Microsoft® Listbuilder as well as custom scripts. Our forums require registration as well. We do not sell or make available any of these addresses to any 3rd parties. We do share email addresses in a few special situations - if you buy a game security key we will share your email address with Pharaoh Productions LLC (who originate the keys) in order to prevent someone else using your key. All who use the PayPal® shopping cart have already provided an email address to that company of course.