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Omigod. Not publishing anything new for a year? That'd be terrible. I mean, that means that the game had to be completely supported by a few fanzines and maybe an e-mail list while the publisher did absolutely nothing. For a whole year!
Wow. I don't know if any game could survive that. I mean, think what'd have happened to Runequest if a year went by without an official release. Gosh, what if two years went by? Or three?
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The bottom line is WOC bought TSR and continues publishing material. When I got to the local gaming store, there's piles of AD&D stuff, much of it new, and just a few moldering old boxes of RQ stuff.
Sorry for the bitter tone of my posts. But you have to understand where I'm coming from. I've been playing RQ for about 20 years. I think it's a great game. But Chaosium starved it and ignored and then sold it into slavery. And now they've killed it. I'm in the anger stage of survivor's remorse. I'll get over it in a few years and move on to depression, bargaining, and, eventually, acceptance.
Alex Ferguson wrote:
>
>R. H. Wolfe has a lengthy and exacting list of demands for the upcoming
>HW line, no actual suggestions as to how to achieve this, and the
>following cheerful expression of support.
>
>> I'll believe it when I see it. Issaries can _intend_ to conquer the
>> world, but I wouldn't stake _my_ money on it.
>
>Then I imagine you won't be, then. But if you don't want to support
>their efforts in a material fashion, then kindly quit whining,
>if-only-ing, and second guessing.
All I'm doing is looking around at a couple dozen other game systems and companies and seeing how much product they've produced over the past decade or so and compared that to the paltry amount of product for RQ/Glorantha. I see other companies getting stuff out there, but not Chaosium. Now, I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how FASA or Warhammer or TSR/WOC or Steve Jackson or even Hero Games manage it. I'm sure it's hard. But they do it and historically Chaosium and AH didn't.
Shannon says that they're purposefully delaying the release of HW so they can properly support it. To me, that's heartening. I hope HW is great and I hope they sell buckets full. Like I said, I'll buy it. I'll buy pretty much anything Gloranthan. I've bought frigging French supplements that I can't even read. My concern is that HW not meet the same ignoble fate suffered by RQ2 and RQ3.
My specific, constructive suggestions are these:
>I think no reasonable person would disagree that the Official Glorantha
>base is currently lamentable, will surely get better over the next year
>or so
God, I hope so. But I'll believe it when I see it. I've been burned way too many times to be anything but cynical.
End of The Glorantha Digest V6 #104
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