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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    I would watch that,
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    Evil Genius Games Attempts To Remove Bad Press [Update--And Then Adds Legal Threats!]

    He did say "fun lawyer meeting" - we don't know if the meeting or the lawyer or perhaps even both are expected to be fun.
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    D&D General Are You There D&D? It's Me, J.R.R. Tol-KEEEEN!

    Surely you got one as the retainer from some client...
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    D&D General Are You There D&D? It's Me, J.R.R. Tol-KEEEEN!

    Yet we had 5th generation copies of Tenchi because Washuuuuuuu.. Ahem.
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    D&D General Are You There D&D? It's Me, J.R.R. Tol-KEEEEN!

    There is a (weird to me) trend to reverse define things in that fashion.
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    Do You Think Open Playtests Improve a Game's Development?

    Sometimes purely a Vibe check...
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    Do You Think Open Playtests Improve a Game's Development?

    That doesn't seem likely to be productive.
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    Do You Think Open Playtests Improve a Game's Development?

    You have a very limited perspective on value that can be gained. Or perhaps are only interested in a very limited subset of values. That's fair. But that isn't what everyone is looking for and not always what is found.
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    Do You Think Open Playtests Improve a Game's Development?

    That's really not that distinct from a random Con demo.
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    Do You Think Open Playtests Improve a Game's Development?

    Open commentary from indirectly solicited vectors come with all manner of new perspectives but also hidden landmines and missing perspective.
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    D&D General Are You There D&D? It's Me, J.R.R. Tol-KEEEEN!

    I have my suspicions to this answer and I expect if you will look deeper at it you'll see the influence of CRPG/JRPG on Manga and Anime as a more direct cause...
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    D&D General Are You There D&D? It's Me, J.R.R. Tol-KEEEEN!

    The Tomorrow People was a staple on US kids cable channel Nickelodeon in the early 80s.
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    D&D General Are You There D&D? It's Me, J.R.R. Tol-KEEEEN!

    Myself, though I touched a very small number of things. The other(s) can choose to out themselves as they wish.. :)
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    D&D General Are You There D&D? It's Me, J.R.R. Tol-KEEEEN!

    There are at least two former writers here on these boards...
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    D&D General Are You There D&D? It's Me, J.R.R. Tol-KEEEEN!

    I would say that it's more that it is now derivative of things that are largely derivative of earlier incarnations of it ( more than it is of it's own lineage )
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    Underrated RPGs

    Whispering Vault Khaotic
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    Diamond Comic Distributors Files Bankruptcy, Sells Alliance Game Distributors

    I haven't pushed a book into distribution in a very long time but I've not heard from friends who still do that the behaviour has improved much. Admittedly "They are out of business" is a little harder to get away with these days. Out of print is a little harder for a retailer or a customer to...
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    Diamond Comic Distributors Files Bankruptcy, Sells Alliance Game Distributors

    I've had a couple of kickstarters fullfilled out of distributors, though I would bet those were far more straight-forward dropshipping type situations.
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    Diamond Comic Distributors Files Bankruptcy, Sells Alliance Game Distributors

    Usually, when you couldn't get it from your distributor it was because they couldn't be arsed to look and see if they had inventory or reorder it if not. Some had a well-known reputation for saying a company was out of business rather than "we're out of stock and don't anticipate reordering."...
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