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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calico_Jack73" data-source="post: 1526900" data-attributes="member: 14403">Yeah but GDW went out of business thanks to a lawsuit by TSR.  TSR didn't like Gary Gygax writing Dangerous Journeys for GDW.  Even though the lawsuit didn't accomplish anything the legal costs for GDW had grown to the point where it killed the company (that and the CCGs).  That was also during the dawn of the Horror genre as the "Genre du jour".  All of GDW's games at the time were set in either modern day realistic military settings or in hard Sci-Fi space settings.  Dark Conspiracy was their answer to the Horror Genre but it was too little too late (there was even a Twilight: Nightmares suplement to try to inject horror into that game).  Twilight:2000, Megatraveller, and 2300AD were great games that still have loyal fan followings.  Traveller was brought back as a d20 game and Twilight is on it's way back.  Poor business management has no bearing on whether something is or isn't considered a "classic" rules set.  If WOTC hadn't bought it out TSR may have gone the way of GDW simply due to poor management.Edit: Oh yeah, we left out Battletech and Mechwarrior.  Though FASA went under the license was picked up and has in fact turned into two lines owned by two different companies.  Now only if Wizkids would pick up Earthdawn...Edit 2: And the FUZION system was left out.  Cyberpunk has been out for a good long time (I had the first boxed set) and is a great game with a great system.</blockquote>

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