Hm, so using the setting of a game is no problem as long as I create the resources myself? That's how I understood your answers so far...
Well, currently I'm working on a fan-fic as well. The only thing I would like to use from the original game (as far as resources go) is the music. Of course, one could claim that if I use the soundtrack I'm also sharing out the music together with my project for free, but look at youtube for example. Especially for the project I'm working on there are almost *ALL* tracks available for free to listen at. If it would be illegal for me to use them for a non-commercial purpose, then how illegal must youtube be? I don't think that anybody ever sued the guys there for uploading the game soundtrack. Or is it just the fact that the producer does not really care about what happens to resources which are older than... 6 or 7 years now?

Thanks so far

Alan


PS: It might sound ridiculous, but what do you think how high my chances are to get a positive response if I actually *asked* the developer whether it would be okay if I used the soundtrack of the original game? After all, today they do not make any money with it any more, the OST-CD is not being produced anymore since... years!