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No. It's a trust issue. How can anybody in their right mind trust WotC any more?

Meh, time to move on to M&M.

I have to agree with this assessment. Williams made a lot of bad business decisions, as did her predecessors, but BR XXVc was not the cause of the demise of Star Frontiers, nerd rage aside.

You're right about the RPG. The first TSR BR XXVc novel was in 1989. It was the board game that was released in 1988.

According to the Wikipedia article, the last product printed for Star Frontiers was the first volume of "Zebulon's Guide to Frontier Space" in 1985. According to the Wikipedia article, BR was first published in 1988. I don't think we can blame the demise of a game in 1985 on another game that...

I was merely explaining what the marketplace determines is good or not. According to the marketplace, Micrsoft Windows is the best operating system and American Idol is the most entertaining television program. ;) One unaltrerable fact about the decisions of the marketplace, however, is the...

The marketplace says you're dead wrong. DVD sales coupled with syndication prove what a good show Firefly was. In its inital run, it was barely marketed and when it aired it was aired with episodes out of order. It was set up to fail by the executives at Fox. Buck Rogers XXVc, on the other...

The marketplace says you're dead wrong. Warehouses full of the game say it was one of the worst games in history. Teh game was pushed and marketed heavily. If you read Dragon magazine at all, you heard about it. If it was a good game, it would ahve been at least marginally successful. It wasn't.

and do it in two posts. ;) EDIT: Curse you, sluggish internet! Extra removed. --Henry

And sadly, it looks like it has ended up as one huge bucket of sloppy fail.

Like maybe V's mate, and thus V's children? I noticed a lot of Black Dragons with green eyes and/or wings. On top of that, V. has purple hair and there were a lot of black dragons with purple eyes and/or wings, too.

Not so fast! OOTS#634: But all those dragons vs. effective level? Hmmmmmmmm...........

qft

Yep, in a high competition market TSR needed to drive down the total number of products released and concentrated on core competencies instead of coming out with the campaign setting of the month. My gosh, how many settings did we end up with? Add on top of that numerous new games and you're...

The unsold DragonDice and D&D products didn't directly contribute to the financial well being of a single family's trust fund. The unsold Buck Rogers products did, taking cash directly from TSR and putting it into this single family's pockets. Informed consumers are better consumers. I will...

There is one undeniable fact. Her family trust fund benefitted financially from what was at the very least an extremely poor decision, printing vast quantities of Buck Rogers game materials that were never sold.

Buck Rogers was the vehicle through which Lorraine Williams exported tons of cash from TSR Inc. into her family's personal trust fund, nearly destroying Dungeons and Dragons forever. I never much cared for MAgic the Gathering as a game, but I love it because it put Peter Adkison into a postion...

In the Deities and Demogods rules cyclopedia (hardcover) with the Elric of Melnibone' mythos included, Donblas, the Justice Maker, is depicted in front of a single arrow pointing upwards. The arrow is similar is style to a single arrow from the Chaos symbol.

Warehouses full of unsold Dragon Dice and Buck Rogers products didn't help the cash position.

All I can say is, I'll never have anything to do with anything connected to Buck Rogers. Buck Rogers is a big part of why TSR went belly up.