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Yea, and that's one of the things that means I can't list Different Worlds as dead... Despite the fact that what IS dead is their magazine... :-)
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Yea, and that's one of the things that means I can't list Different Worlds as dead... Despite the fact that what IS dead is their magazine... :-)
Different Worlds never published core rules... They were originally just an RPG magazine publisher (which still qualifies them as an "RPG" company). I don't know when they got into the business of buying warehouse lots of out of print games and selling them. The magazine died in the 80s (my subscription ended 2 shy of the last issue, I picked up the last 2 issues at a comic book store).You can't buy the core rules which is a good sign of death to me.
Pity. I recently read that their Silhouette system is "a better d6 dice pool game than WEG Star Wars." I wanted to find out for myself, but the core rulebook is only available in apparently a bad scan.
When did they die?You fogies...nobody is going to mention a single company founded in the new millennium? I’m sure I missed one somewhere but it’s mostly old stuff up in here.
Goodman Games should be called Greatman Games. Wonderful products, stellar customer service and just a great relationship with their community. Pure Class.
Sine Nomine may be only one dude, but you wouldn’t know it based on the quantity and quality of products. Crawford never misses a Kickstarter deadline and his ideas have raised the standard for what OSR can accomplish.
Goodman Games should be called Greatman Games. Wonderful products, stellar customer service and just a great relationship with their community. Pure Class.
Sine Nomine may be only one dude, but you wouldn’t know it based on the quantity and quality of products. Crawford never misses a Kickstarter deadline and his ideas have raised the standard for what OSR can accomplish.
Are Goodman Games and Sine Nomine dead?
Sine Nomine is most decidedly not dead. Kevin is working on a new game.
There's a streamlined version of it available online, by yours truly. With permission by DP9.Pity. I recently read that their Silhouette system is "a better d6 dice pool game than WEG Star Wars." I wanted to find out for myself, but the core rulebook is only available in apparently a bad scan.
GDW was great, though for my money Digest Group Publications should have been the Traveller company after about 1988.
Yes, especially because it's due to my old eyes.Do we get to laugh now at being called "fogies" because someone didn't see the thread title correctly?
I wouldn't say you're an idiot but hey if you're going to do it who am I to stop you?OK! I'm an idiot. In my defense, I was reading and writing on a phone and my I need a new prescription.
No love for Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE)?
For me it's 80's era Chaosium... and GW of around that time as well. Not dead... but undead, mutated into something I've got little or no use for.
Just a side note. I'm pretty sure we had Virgin Stores here in the states at least in LA. I think I bought stuff from them in the early 2000's near Lincoln and the 90 in Marina Del Rey.ICE are still technically around but most of the stuff coming out is written under Terry Amthor's imprint. The rest seems to be in a continual development hell. I get a Director's newsletter each month from them, but I miss the old days when I used to go to the Virgin megastore (another blast from the past for those from the UK) and find a couple of new ICE products each time.
Couldn't agree more, especially since my favourite edition of Call of Cthulhu is 3rd, published by Games Workshop in the UK.
While not quite RPG releated, I personally miss Task Force Games the makes of Star Fleet Battles and Starfire. SFB is still going strong under Amarillo Design Bureau but Task Force Games had other interesting games as well.
The Virgin Games store I remember in London in '86 was verrrrrrry different from the Virgin Megastores I've been to in the US. Did the latter even carry RPGs?Just a side note. I'm pretty sure we had Virgin Stores here in the states at least in LA. I think I bought stuff from them in the early 2000's near Lincoln and the 90 in Marina Del Rey.
More on topic, this is an area I'm quite ignorant in. How is old Chaosium different than the current incarnation?
ICE are still technically around but most of the stuff coming out is written under Terry Amthor's imprint. The rest seems to be in a continual development hell. I get a Director's newsletter each month from them, but I miss the old days when I used to go to the Virgin megastore (another blast from the past for those from the UK) and find a couple of new ICE products each time.
Gaffe though this might have been, about ten years ago Evil Hat spun off a subsidiary called One Bad Egg to publish 4th Edition D&D content. It didn't really take off, but I have fond memories of their first (and, as it turned out, only) setting, the Shroud.You fogies...nobody is going to mention a single company founded in the new millennium? I’m sure I missed one somewhere but it’s mostly old stuff up in here.
Whatever happened to Games Workshop?
Ah, the early 1980s were the halcyon days for me too.....Brian Ansell, in two words. He decided that the company should refocus it's efforts to making pre-adolescent upperclass boys the target audience for a dumbed-down miniatures gameline, and killed every project line that didn't fit that model, causing the majority of the original creators to leave the company
Elaborating on my earlier post now that I finished what I was doing--some memorable products:Just offhand: Mayfair (as far as RPGs go), TSR, GDW, West End Games, FASA, Task Force Games, I.C.E.
Probably some others I can't think of at the moment and I'm too busy to look them up.