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09-23-1999, 11:53 PM #11Jesse LaBrancheGuest
Opinions.
> Role-Playing games are fundamentally games of imagination. If you can't
> play it without a company spoon feeding it to you, get expanded cable
> service.
Nobody said that I couldn't play it without a company spoon-feeding it
to me.
Maybe I should invest in cable before expanded cable eh?
> Frankly, I prefer that there have been 11 lines produced by TSR. That's
> variety. Something you don't get with 3 lines that are a gazillion years
> old, and the only new material being produced either is reduced to
defining
> how many socks Albert the Blacksmith has, or changing the world for you.
Yeah, I'd prefer 11 lines still out by TSR than 3. That's more variety.
As far
as a gazillion years old goes and defining whether Albert the blacksmith has
socks or not- that is caused by a lack of imagination on the designers'
parts
not by the age of the line.
Als, as far as changing the world goes, that is apparently the only way
that
TSR has managed to figure out how to do it. I have a campaign world that is
about 15 years old, still getting new material written for it on a regular
basis,
and
> I get the impression Jesse LaBranche wishes Ozzie and Harriet and Dick van
> Dyke were still on TV, rather than shows being added and deleted from the
> prime time line-up.
No, those were all a little before my time. A TV lineup is determined
much
more by time available than by financial resources AFAIK though. And we're
definitely talking about two completely different things here.
> As it happens, quality game materials come from lots of different avenues
> being pursued and the good ones being explored. But there are limits to
> people's interest in a game world and a limit to the quality contributions
> that can be made.
Since when? On both counts.
> I hope that in the next 25 years, TSR/WoC gives us another 10 plus worlds,
> so that I can select what *I* like from what is out there. I would *hate*
> to think that I would have been stuck with 3 worlds supported since 1975
and
> nothing there that really attracted me like BR did.
I'd hope that they'd give us more interesting variations and cultures on
the
various worlds that are/were already in print. 3 Worlds supported since 1975
would not be bad.
Consider the fact that a single world could support different cultures
(like
the differences between cultures in RL and DS from the more traditional
fantasy lines).
I'd imagine that I could run the BR system on any world that TSR has
ever
created, and I'd imagine that I could run material from most worlds on the
BR world.
> BR was the only Box Set I purchased, and I was pleased with the whole
> campaign. Never would have happened if TSR hadn't tried a bunch of stuff
> knowing they could not support everything they tried.
Somehow, I get the impression that Birthright may have had a chance to
be one of the leading product lines had they left a longer print-run on it
and
promoted it more.
I hadn't even heard of Birthright before it was OOP, and that was only
because a friend had procured every product in the line while he was in
Germany.
> Make a lot of products and hope some of them are as good as you want all
of
> them to be.
> Kenneth Gauck
> c558382@earthlink.net
Or take the time and make the efforts to be sure that it is good and
that
the market will support it before you release it.
Later.
Jesse.
vanquer@email.msn.com
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09-24-1999, 05:30 AM #12Tim NuttingGuest
Opinions.
I love this... You know, I've got a couple of old timers in my group, I
kind of feel like one myself, guess its a symptom of getting old and
decrepit. I've also noticed getting set in my ways.
Here's the sad news folks:
It's a business. WotC/TSR/Hasbro, whatever. They are there, spending the
money they spend, to turn a profit, plain and simple. Customer service only
counts if you meet your bottom line, and holding the game back for "customer
service" is about as stupid and suicidal a move as anyone can make. 2nd
doesn't sell, they're moving on.
Deal with it. The beauty of Free Market is that you don't have to buy a
thrice cursed thing. If you like it, buy it, show your support by giving
them a few bucks. If you don't, deny them your expendable cash and do
something else that strokes your feather.
Quit if you want, play 2nd if you like, or by Nessus play the original. I
could care less.
Later
Tim
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