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Subject: 
Re: mech legalities
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lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Fri, 11 May 2001 18:00:41 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D. writes:
Speaking of TSR are they still around?

  After a disastrous overproduction of really, really sub-standard fiction,
resulting in a huge return of stock by such low-visibility companies as B.
Dalton and others, TSR teetered on the brink on non-existence for between 6
and 12 months.  Wizards of the Coast, operating with capital gleaned from
Magic: The Cash Cow, purchased the foundering company and began releasing
product again.
  Dungeons and Dragons is now in its 3rd edition, but the game itself hasn't
recovered from the new-release-hiatus it suffered a few years back.  TSR is
still the producer of AD&D and the like, but it is a subsidiary company of WotC.

     Dave!


   Not to say that a company won't stick "TM" on it just to
   scare the unwary or uninitiated; TSR did this with its
   "Indiana Jones" series of games, especially with the stand-
   up cardboard figures, including this gem:
<snip>



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  Re: mech legalities
 
(...) You mean, *more* substandard than what was already coming out of millions of AD&D gaming sessions around the world? Whoa, that sucks. :) (...) Hah! TSR swallowed by an amoeba! How fitting. (...) You know, I sometimes can appreciate justice. (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: mech legalities
 
Speaking of TSR are they still around? -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. <snip> (...) <snip> (24 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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