> Found some more nwes on the TSR site (not very good I'm afraid) so I thought
> I'd post it for everyone..
>
> Birthright, Spellfire, Dragon Dice: These lines are built on intriguing
> concepts, but sales have been weak. We have some ideas
> that we will be trying during the second half of this year to see what we
> can do to build up these lines. If those ideas don't
> work we will let the lines slip into hiaitus for a while and consider
> relaunches at a later date.
>
> 1997 RELEASE SCHEDULE
>
> Birthright: King of Giantdowns (Jul), Book of Priestcraft (Oct),
> Tribes/Heartless Wastes Sourcebook (Dec).

And thereby a poor release schedule for 1997 gets even worse.

I love BR, but I would say that its odds of surviving into 1998 are
not good. The wargame aspect is too convoluted to appeal to the
general role-playing crowd, and isn't complex enough to appeal to the
true wargamers.

I'll buy these (and anything else that gets published) of course, but
that probably won't be enough to save the line.

Relaunches? Never going to happen. My ex-roommate once pointed out
that whenever I said "maybe," I really meant "no."

Perhaps (keep your fingers crossed) the Sierra game will do really
well, and will influence people to try the RPG system that it is
based on. A bit of a stretch, but one I'm hoping for.

Time will tell, but TSR's history may be even more telling.

Jaime
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