Guardians of Order's death-a confirmation

Turjan · Jul 30, 2006

trancejeremy said:
If all their products are like that, the real question is, how did they stay in business so long...

Tékumel: Empire of the Petal Throne is a really good fantasy RPG. The setting is one of the classics, but the authors produced a nice implementation of GoO's Tri-stat system for it. It's definitely worth a look, if you don't mind it's not d20.

Pramas · Jul 30, 2006

This reminds of when the Chainmail minis game was publically cancelled one week before it won an Origins Award.

Garnfellow · Jul 30, 2006

What a shame -- Game of Thrones was fantastic, and I was really looking forward to Tekumel d20, which was slated to be released this summer.

Dragonhelm · Jul 30, 2006

One of the best things from GoO was their Gamer's Manifesto. I wonder if I could acquire the rights to that...

Sad to see GoO go.

Greg K · Jul 30, 2006

trancejeremy said:
Personally, I paid $9 for their Trigun d20 book, and I feel ripped off. If I had paid the MSRP (which I think was $40?) I would have been steaming mad. If all their products are like that, the real question is, how did they stay in business so long...

I haven't seen Trigun d20. However, I was very impressed with Tristat dx, the anime srd and the mecha srd.

Arashi Ravenblade · Jul 30, 2006

I cant honestly care, i was never a fan.
I found the rules poor.

Crothian · Jul 30, 2006

Arashi Ravenblade said:
I cant honestly care, i was never a fan.
I found the rules poor.

Which rules? There are like 3 dozen books people are talking about here!!

They had some good stuff though I never really enjoyed the anime inspired stuff. Ghost Dog was great though.

Xyanthon · Jul 30, 2006

It is indeed sad to see another publisher close their doors. I found GoO's A Game of Thrones to be the most well done RPG books that I own (which is saying a lot because I own quite a bit). I wish there were more games published with the production values that the Delux Edition of this game had. Hopefully, somebody will pick this property up and be able to continue it in the high quality that GoO provided.

WayneLigon · Jul 31, 2006

That's really terrible. I own a lot of their games and always found them to be well-done. I hope that the various lines can be placed with another publisher, since I'd hate to see things like BESM, Tekumel and the rest fall by the wayside.

arscott · Jul 31, 2006

I haven't really read that much GoO stuff, but I did get the impression that their d20 conversions were sub-par even if the flavor was pretty impressive.