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<blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 9635174" data-attributes="member: 891">I'd say things like:The typical:- Publishers goes out of business and takes the IP with them. Before the Internet era this usually meant 'game over' but some of these can now be found as PDFs on DriveThruRPG. The old company 'Fantasy Games Unlimited' had games like Villains and Vigilantes or Other Suns, and I at least saw Other Suns on DriveThru.To the insanely bizarre:- Author is posthumously revealed to have used a pen name to sit on the board of a real world terrorist organization and write 'Nazi' literature, as well as be the son of a '5th columnist' operating for Nazi Germany during the years before WWII. (Empire of the Petal Throne)(As an aside an elder step-in-law of mine is the daughter of an SS-officer, but was herself a lifelong civil right's activist married to a Mexican Jewish attorney and activist - being descended from a 'villain' can just as often be motivation to become a hero. But for the above example it sadly wasn't.)To be 'dead' you've either got to take your IP out of play and have no one carrying the torch for you, or you or your game become 'Chernobyl level' toxic.Outside of the extremes, 'dead game' is subjective. But if there's no notable community, we can at least call something 'mostly dead'.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kichwas, post: 9635174, member: 891"] I'd say things like: The typical: - Publishers goes out of business and takes the IP with them. Before the Internet era this usually meant 'game over' but some of these can now be found as PDFs on DriveThruRPG. The old company 'Fantasy Games Unlimited' had games like Villains and Vigilantes or Other Suns, and I at least saw Other Suns on DriveThru. To the insanely bizarre: - Author is posthumously revealed to have used a pen name to sit on the board of a real world terrorist organization and write 'Nazi' literature, as well as be the son of a '5th columnist' operating for Nazi Germany during the years before WWII. (Empire of the Petal Throne) (As an aside an elder step-in-law of mine is the daughter of an SS-officer, but was herself a lifelong civil right's activist married to a Mexican Jewish attorney and activist - being descended from a 'villain' can just as often be motivation to become a hero. But for the above example it sadly wasn't.) To be 'dead' you've either got to take your IP out of play and have no one carrying the torch for you, or you or your game become 'Chernobyl level' toxic. Outside of the extremes, 'dead game' is subjective. But if there's no notable community, we can at least call something 'mostly dead'. [/QUOTE]

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