| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | SR Narrowing of focus |
| Date: | Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:09:19 -0400 |
>think I'd be more irritated with having to buy multiple books to get
>the entire picture on a large event.
That is what I'm talking about, I just really screwed up the wording. I
would love to be able to buy EVERY suppliment and novel, and have the time
to read them, but who does? (That is a retiorical question. Anyone
answering in the affermative will be thwapped, but I prefeer celocanth to
carp. And for those that don't know, a celocanth is a big, prehistoric,
heavily armoued fish that was thought to be extinct until about the '40s
IIRC. It is the differnce between a size 4 work glove and a size 12,
plate-and-mail gauntlet.)
>If you're talking summary books (as you mention below) which come out
>some time after the original books, that's different.
Yep. I would rather wait two or three years, but one book, and be able to
catch up, rather than
>Hey, that's not a bad idea. If that's what you mean by supporting the
>older settings, I'd go for that. If I were doing it, I'd probably do
Yep. No need to produce new material, except maybe some quotes and a
throw-away adventure or two per book, while still keeping the data alive.
It's largely the smae thing that they did in BT with TR:2025 before they
had to change it.
>times now, if you want it, you'll have to demonstrate to FASA that it's
>a good idea. And I'll be in on that.
And the way of business is, unless you can show a pre-existing market,
they won't go for it.
I hate being an inovator.
>reprinted. Can anyone tell me why FASA doesn't do that?
Uh, conventional wisdom from a buisness school is that they are old news,
and should be shoved aside for new products. That is the problem when
accountants who are trained ont he automotive or electronics model are
placed in charge of a gaming comapny, rather than gamers with accounting
training.
>Do You Yahoo!?
Only under the full moon or when the hot water runs out in the shower. <g>
Kevin Dole, aka CyberRaven, aka IronRaven, aka Steel Tengu
http://members.xoom.com/iron_raven/
"Once again, we have spat in the face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
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