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Re: mech legalities
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 11 May 2001 18:46:49 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.general, Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D. writes:
> > Speaking of TSR are they still around?
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> After a disastrous overproduction of really, really sub-standard fiction,
You mean, *more* substandard than what was already coming
out of millions of AD&D gaming sessions around the world?
Whoa, that sucks. :)
> 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.
Hah! TSR swallowed by an amoeba! How fitting.
> 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.
You know, I sometimes can appreciate justice. Steve Jackson
keeps humming along, but the grouper that was TSR got angled
right out of the water. The victory of substance over flash
will be cemented the day we see a TSR/Pokémon crossover. :)
Spiffy!
LFB
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| (...) TSR was once the Amoeba that swallowed SPI, so it has a certain circular irony to it. (for the non-intialized (initiated on initials): Tactical Studies Rules and Simulations Publications, Inc.) (...) Which is now a subsidiary of Hasbro. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | The Gygax Legacy (was: mech legality)
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| (...) Having worked in a hobby/gaming for an annoying length of time, I've been exposed to far too much garbage nee fantasy fiction. Ed Greenwood tops the list of awful book producers (I hate to call him a writer), closely followed by everything (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) 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. (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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