| From: | "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl> |
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| Subject: | Re: RPGs on their way out? |
| Date: | Thu, 2 May 1996 11:50:56 +0100 |
> 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?)
Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration.
> it started out making ship
> 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?)
Something in the order of Tactical Simulations Research, I believe,
although I doubt it stands for anything except money anymore these days :)
> What will happen to Wizards of the Coast depends on their management
> and how the wind fall from Magic is invested.
Going by the way their catalog looks, either everything is going very well
or they are trying to make it appear like that... However, if they play
their cards right (to the humor-impaired: I'm not going to say "pun
intended" here :) Magic will stay for a long time to come, if you ask me.
> 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?
That is pure speculation, of course. WotC was not as big as FASA, so who
knows? Maybe FASA would have turned to making CCGs exclusively, or maybe
they'd have marketed it completely wrong and nobody'd be playing card games
at all at the moment; some middle road between the two would also be
possible, of course.
> >That makes you what, 85 in 2036? :)
> >
> Yes, and 44 now or how I prefer to state it I am eleven for the 4th time going
> on 15 for the third.
You're one of those people who go around saying "You're as young as you
feel like," aren't you? :)
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