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<blockquote data-quote="Griffon86" data-source="post: 6155027" data-attributes="member: 6747924">I've written a few missives myself (in other places) about &quot;dead&quot; games (i.e., unsupported ones) and, more recently, how relevant publishers remain in a hobby increasingly fueled by creative DIY types who design and disseminate material for free or for pay online without the financial backing and infrastructure of traditional publishers. I think many gamers strike a balance, playing old, unsupported favorites and investing in and immersing themselves in new materials. As far as bringing new gamers to a particular game -- and newcomers into the adventure gaming hobby itself -- currently supported games still have predominance. When I was still doing conventions, long after West End lost the Star Wars license, I'd always run at least one D6 Star Wars RPG game session, not because it was the currently supported version or the new-and-shiny edition, but because I knew gamers out there wanted to satisfy their nostalgia fix...and those game sessions filled beyond capacity every single time.(I'll also handily argue that, as long as fans or other folks, myself included, continue posting material for &quot;unsupported&quot; games they remain, rather unofficially, supported. I regret I cannot share any of those free, unofficial support materials for the aforementioned D6 Star Wars RPG here....)Fly casual,Peter</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Griffon86, post: 6155027, member: 6747924"] I've written a few missives myself (in other places) about "dead" games (i.e., unsupported ones) and, more recently, how relevant publishers remain in a hobby increasingly fueled by creative DIY types who design and disseminate material for free or for pay online without the financial backing and infrastructure of traditional publishers. I think many gamers strike a balance, playing old, unsupported favorites and investing in and immersing themselves in new materials. As far as bringing new gamers to a particular game -- and newcomers into the adventure gaming hobby itself -- currently supported games still have predominance. When I was still doing conventions, long after West End lost the [I]Star Wars[/I] license, I'd always run at least one [I]D6 Star Wars RPG [/I]game session, not because it was the currently supported version or the new-and-shiny edition, but because I knew gamers out there wanted to satisfy their nostalgia fix...and those game sessions filled beyond capacity every single time. (I'll also handily argue that, as long as fans or other folks, myself included, continue posting material for "unsupported" games they remain, rather unofficially, supported. I regret I cannot share any of those free, unofficial support materials for the aforementioned [I]D6 Star Wars RPG[/I] here....) Fly casual, Peter [/QUOTE]

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