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| (...) Maybe... But I also got Ogre and Car Wars in the deal. 8^) Dave! (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 11-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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| (...) 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. (...) (23 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. (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Speaking of TSR are they still around? -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. <snip> (...) <snip> (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I'm not sure about HERC, as it's an acronym used in that universe. It is derived from Herculean but it has its own provenance as well. Not to say that a company won't stick "TM" on it just to scare the unwary or uninitiated; TSR did this with (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Hey Lindsay, sometimes a typo is just a typo! Maggie C. (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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