From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Re: SR 3rd Ed. comments and questions
Date:	Fri, 4 Jul 1997 13:08:10 +0100

Spike said on 18:44/ 3 Jul 97...

[CD-ROM]
> That would SERIOUSLY affect it's marketability. Think about it.
> Not ALL players and GMs are computer active. Not all have computers, and of
> those that do, not all have CD ROM drives.

And of those that do own a computer with CD-ROM and have it at/near the
game table (like me), not all want to use it for something like this. I
don't like reading things from a computer screen if I can have a hardcopy;
computers are useful for playing RPGs, but mostly for things computers are
good at -- rolling lots of dice, quickly generating NPCs and names, stuff
like that.

> (I have a computer, but no CD ROM. And the chances of getting a CD ROM are
> slim, because it'll only be capable of viewing text/graphics, not run the
> programs..... It's not a PC or Apple y'know...)

OTOH the majority of the market will be using PCs, the majority of them
running Windows, so from that point of view T$R's AD&D disc wasn't such a
bad venture, the books being on the CD as Windows help files AFAIK. Oh,
and since those help files are not executables, you should be able to
write an interpreter for the QL for them :)

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