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Message no. 1
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: GDW (was Re: gaming history / stores)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 01:05:06 -0500
At 04:55 AM 3/16/98 -0600, Wafflemiesters wrote these timeless words:
GDW 25%, which
>still leaves a market RPG's, dice and stuff like that... They have the
>GDW minimum order problem, but big enough GDW sales to bring in the
>needed money (not always on the things GDW pushes, like "Gorkamorka" and
>Epic... but hey, they get back the wholesale price, and somebody gets a
>cheap game!)
>
Ummm... GDW was a company that put out RPGs like Dark Consiracy and went
under a couple years ago :]

I think you mean GW... Not much difference in the two names, except for
that D for "Designers" in the middle :]

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Message no. 2
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: GDW (was Re: gaming history / stores)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:05:51 +0000
And verily, did Bull hastily scribble thusly...
|I think you mean GW... Not much difference in the two names, except for
|that D for "Designers" in the middle :]

However, there is a BIG difference in business practices.
If anyone was the M$ of the gaming world, it is GW.
(WotC are just M$ wannabes compared to them.)

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