From:	MENARD Steve <menars@***.UMontreal.CA>
Subject:	Re: RPGs on their way out?
Date:	Wed, 1 May 1996 22:28:54 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 1 May 1996 dhinkley@***.org wrote:

> To return for a minute to role-playing games and the CCGs the question
> is which manufactures are going to survive and in what form. Consider FASA (A
> quick trivia question...What does FASA stand for?) it started out making ship
Freedonian Air and Space Administration.

> diagrams for the first Traveller game under license from GDW. It no longer makes
> or sells any thing that is not for the game lines it controls and is now
> licensing out aspects of its game universes. GDW is in hard times not because of
> CCGs but because of Gygax's fantasy game and legal discussions with TSR. Even
> TSR has changed (second trivia question....What does TSR stand for?) it started
> out making miniature armor (HO or 1/87 or 20mm) rules. It's first hit, D&D
> established a whole hobby industry as Magic has in CCGs. TSR has managed to hang
> on still milking that original product (22 years is not bad). What will happen
> to Wizards of the Coast depends on their management and how the wind fall from
> Magic is invested.
>
> Here is a thought to consider. FASA turned down a chance to produce
> Magic. The designer went to FASA before WoC. Consider what impact that would
> have had on Shadowrun?
>
Isnt FASA supposed to realease a CCG base on Shadowrun?

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