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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack of Shadows" data-source="post: 1573386" data-attributes="member: 3276">Hi,I'm a little late wading into this thread but it has been a very interesting read. I don't actually work in the industry but following the actual business of it is almost a hobby of mine. I also have a number of friends in the industry (Robin Laws, Steve Trustrum and all the guys at Fiery Dragon) so I do get to see behind the scenes a little more than most.I any case I wanted to counterpoint the statement that the small press guys are the ones producing all the junk. A statement that has already been championed but I wanted to add a case in point.I picked up D20 Modern shortly after it came out because I'd heard (here I think) that S&SS were going to do Gamma World D20. Well a year after I had originally expected it to be released I finally picked it up. To say that I was dissapointed would be an understatement. While the book has some great ideas in it none of them seemed complete or thought through very well. I started reading the Gammaworld boards at S&SS and discovered that I was the only one giving the new edition a cold review. What I did pick up was that everyone was talking about something called Darwin's World. So I looked it up.What I found was some really interesting stuff and that a HC 2nd. Edition was due. SO down to my FLGS (the Hairy Tarantula in Toronto, great store) I went and started harassing them to get me a copy. The release date came and went with out it arriving. For three months after the fact I went in every week and asked if they had it in yet. Everytime I was told no but they'd keep on their distributor about it (and these guys do that, they'll go direct to the publisher if they need to). Finally a couple of weeks ago they got 2 copies in. Needless to say one them is now mine.This book (which is HUGE if you haven't seen it) had EVERYTHING that Gammaworld D20 had been missing. I'm still poring through it. And the funny thing is that my Gammaworld D20 game that I was going to get Darwin's World to supplement has become my Darwin's World game which Gamma World D20 is going to supplement.So the moral of this short story turned long is that it's not just the small guys producing junk.Jack</blockquote>

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