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Re: mech legalities
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Date: 
Fri, 11 May 2001 19:43:23 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
In lugnet.general, Dave Schuler writes:

  Hah!  TSR swallowed by an amoeba!  How fitting.

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.)


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.

Which is now a subsidiary of Hasbro.


  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

Being a long-time GURPS (oh geez, now I gotta explain more initials to the
looky-loos: Generic Universal Role Playing System) fan, I'm glad Evil Stevie
is still around, but starting out a 10 year old in GURPs is a bit difficult.
There's something to be said for handing him some dice, giving him a few
odds and ends to start with, and letting him go.

Still have my 1st edition brown-box (no A)D&D(no TM)!  My 27 year old
20-sided die takes about that long to stop rolling it's gotten so round.  :-)

Bruce the Geezer
("I remember way back when before there wuz any of these new-fangled
Paladins or Thieves...")



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  Re: mech legalities
 
(...) Isn't Avalon Hill, too? (...) My RPG FoTW (not this week, but it happened during *a* week): I was in a local Goodwill store, yet again finding no LEGO (for that matter, I have *NEVER* found even a single LEGO in all my trips to a bunch of (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: mech legalities
 
(...) Really? I always thought GURPS was simpler to learn and use, because the overall structure was simpler. Everything is right there on the character sheet, so even if you don't know all the possibilities, you can still play a character pretty (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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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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