From: | satinner@*********.net (Steven A. Tinner) |
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Subject: | Dead Games (Re: SR D20 Released!) |
Date: | Sat, 3 Apr 2004 12:58:16 -0800 (PST) |
has closed down, no one has the lisence to produce new
material, etc.
If you want to consider a game dead because the "feel"
of the game is different, then SR has been dead to me
since right after SR3 came out. ;-)
> Star Wars isn't the WEG game converted to d20. It's
> a separate game
> entirely.
AFAIK, a lot of that had to do with the new lisence
restrictions handed down from Lucas.
WotC was basically told what they could and couldn't
do with the game.
WEG had a LOT more freedom to play in the world.
And that's probably due to the new movies as much as
anything.
Say it with me. "Lucas Sucks." ;-)
> As for L5R/Oriental Adventures and 7th
> Sea/Swashbuckling Adventures, in
> my opinion, both of these games started dying when
> John Wick left AEG.
> He was the author of both games' metaplots, and the
> change in the
> quality and flavor of the material after they ran
> out of what he had
> written before leaving is quite evident. Again, in
> my opinion.
L5R never really caught on around here.
7th Sea is doing great. AFAIK.
A friend of mine just wrote their new LARP rules for
them, after he pulled off a good LARP at Origins last
year.
Tinner
OEGM