| From: | Bull bull@*******.net |
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| Subject: | Decipher + FASA |
| Date: | Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:24:31 -0400 (EDT) |
>I was speaking to a fellower shadowrunner yesterday shortly after the news
>broke, and suggested that FASA and Decipher were forming to combat the
>WotC/TSR merger. My companion said that he really couldn't see it
happening,
>since TSR had been pretty much silent since the merger. Myself, I shy away
>from TSR's lines, so I couldn't say. Of course, this guy thinks the SR line
>has been quiet this past year, so maybe his idea of volume is different.
>
Well... I haven't really played much from AD&D in a long time, but... To
be honest, I've been mroe interested in playing D&D stuff in the last
couple years than I have been in a LONG time... ANd I've been doing AD&D
for about 16 years now...
Yeah, the volumn of AD&D stuff has declined. But most people who played
AD&D for any length of time can tell you that there was a reason they went
broke. They were pumping out scads of CRAP for a long time, supporting
game worlds that no one liked and putting out hordes of medicre stuff for
game worlds that people liked.
So they've refocused. To be honest, I think that the WOTC buyout was the
best thing that could have happened to TSR and AD&D. A lot of what they're
putting out right now for their 25th anniversary is, as was said, nostolgia
stuff. Slight redo's and reprints of old AD&D modules that are 20 years
old, with some new material. Of course, everything they're reprinting is
in response to polls in what people wanted to see. This is what we grew up
playing, and this is what we want to see :] Return to the Tomb of Horrors
is the best AD&D set I've ever seen :]
Besides, we've all said how cool it would be to see FASA reprint some of
it's old OOP stuff, right? :] <grin>
Bull
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