Apparently the original game was a disaster so I'm a bit dubious. I own the Dark Crystal board game by the same designer and publishers and, well... I'm really only keeping it for the IP, which I love, otherwise it screams to be sold as soon as possible.
Ahhh..., okay, I'll admit my ignorance, Z. What does IP stand for?
First things I thought of were Internet Protocol (my career was in IT (not Italy or Income Tax) and then Internet Provider. Those obviously don't fit contextually. Ice Pellets, Iron Pipe, Immersible Pump, I'm getting nowhere. 🤔 Wait! You're a physicist - Isotope Production! That can't be right. Could it be Investment Portfolio? I give up. I envision myself doing a whatever you call it when you do a self-forehead smack when you enlighten me. 😄
Intellectual Property. That's basically when something is officially based on something else. But it had become (metonymically, if you fancy technical linguistic terms) a word to refer to basically that "thing" which is common to all products.
In the case of Dark Crystal (the Intellectual Property) that would be the "thing" that make the movie, the series, the comic books, the novels, the board game, the role playing game, the bestiaries, all part of the same "thing", and since we don't have a name for that thing, we use "Intellectual Property" because that's what binds them legally.
Metonymically? Where do you come up with these words, Z? I'd be surprised if anyone in the United States has ever heard of it, much less being capable of using it correctly in a sentence. 😄 The only word I know in French is "hors d’oeuvres".
Apparently the original game was a disaster so I'm a bit dubious. I own the Dark Crystal board game by the same designer and publishers and, well... I'm really only keeping it for the IP, which I love, otherwise it screams to be sold as soon as possible.