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Re: mech legalities
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Fri, 11 May 2001 20:15:07 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > Which is now a subsidiary of Hasbro.
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> Isn't Avalon Hill, too?
Yup.
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> > 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. :-)
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> 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.
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
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