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Re: mech legalities
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Fri, 11 May 2001 20:02:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > > 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.
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> Which is now a subsidiary of Hasbro.
Isn't Avalon Hill, too?
> 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.
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> 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. :-)
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 Goodwill stores over spanning about two decades!), I noticed a black
cardboard box, about 5x1.5x8. Lo and behold, it was the first printing of
the first edition of Traveller, with a price tag of $1! Even better, when I
opened it to check its completeness, I found Ogre, Car Wars, and a few other
SJG still in their ziplocks stuffed in with the Traveller rules. At
checkout, I learned that there was a 25% sale, so I got the whole shebang
for $.75.
Not the best find ever, perhaps, but it really made my day, if only
because I so seldom stumble upon great bargains like that.
Dave!
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| (...) Yup. (...) Good deal! Thrift stores are terrible on Lego, but they can be great on games. Of course, Traveller one can argue that Traveller as a game is over-priced at 75 cents... :-O Bruce (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) If you ever want to make a die-hard grognard cry, mention the Sad Fate of the Late, Great, Avalon Hill Games Company. It's pathetic what happened--they were acquired by Hasbro Interactive, which basically sits on all the great intellectual (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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. (...) (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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