As the eternal champion mailing list owner
I must correct the statement made here.
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Ken said that when talking to Greg, it had
been stated that times were financially
hard for Chaosium, especially after some
CCG products underperforming.
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Ken believed that certain intellectual
properties (ie Pendragon, Glorantha) were
being sheltered in different companies.
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In other words rather than having all
eggs in the Chaosium basket it made sense
to keep them legally separate.
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He did then say he would not be surprised
that Chaosium itself may face serious=20
problems, but that hopefully the key
properties would be safe, kept in other
companies as they are.
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This sounds like good prudence. It also
may well be a part of a strategy to
refinance Chaosium through the licensing
of intellectual properties.
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IMHO Chaosium did exactly this when they
licensed Gloreantha and sold RuneQuest to
Avalon Hill all those years ago. We
cannot presume that financial problems
lead to collapse. Other gaming companies
have had bad financial problems in the
past and are still with us. (I believe
SJG had some tricky years historically).
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Tom
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