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<blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 5202498" data-attributes="member: 11821"><p>This is the same situation every player of every out-of-print game has ever faced. You'd be facing the same situation now if you wanted to run a WEG d6 Star Wars game, or a WotC RCR Star Wars game. (Or for that matter WFRP2, AD&D 2e, etc.)</p><p></p><p>Except for Palladium and Call of Cthulhu, game lines end. Book-sharing is always a pretty good solution. Secondary markets are out there, too. And there are other ways of getting out-of-print games in pdf, the ethics of which you and your group can decide on your own terms.</p><p></p><p></p><p>If the license were free, or a lot cheaper, they very well might have. I think SWSE was great, but it could have seriously used a new edition or at least half-edition to clean up some of the wackiness in the rules (especially re: Force use).</p><p></p><p>I am pretty sure WotC would have continued selling the books indefinitely if there were a way to make money off it. They're not a charity. And they don't even have the legal ability to make the game public domain - licensed properties don't work that way. The only way to continue selling the books they had was to continue with the license - and I find it hard to imagine that they could stay in the black without ever producing another new sourcebook.</p><p></p><p>-O</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Obryn, post: 5202498, member: 11821"] This is the same situation every player of every out-of-print game has ever faced. You'd be facing the same situation now if you wanted to run a WEG d6 Star Wars game, or a WotC RCR Star Wars game. (Or for that matter WFRP2, AD&D 2e, etc.) Except for Palladium and Call of Cthulhu, game lines end. Book-sharing is always a pretty good solution. Secondary markets are out there, too. And there are other ways of getting out-of-print games in pdf, the ethics of which you and your group can decide on your own terms. If the license were free, or a lot cheaper, they very well might have. I think SWSE was great, but it could have seriously used a new edition or at least half-edition to clean up some of the wackiness in the rules (especially re: Force use). I am pretty sure WotC would have continued selling the books indefinitely if there were a way to make money off it. They're not a charity. And they don't even have the legal ability to make the game public domain - licensed properties don't work that way. The only way to continue selling the books they had was to continue with the license - and I find it hard to imagine that they could stay in the black without ever producing another new sourcebook. -O [/QUOTE]
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