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The cup of a carpenter? Surely you jest.

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kregmosier

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June 26, 2007, 01:45:52 PM


:D  ok, it's was GoO but still...
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GrayPumpkin

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June 26, 2007, 03:20:49 PM
Quote from: kregmosier

:D  ok, it's was GoO but still...
I know what your thinking, but I happen to own that book, picked it up in the discount bin, and if your running games involving the mob it's one of the better source books out there, great breakdown of mob organizations their strata and the types of crimes they commit, mostly concentrates on the Italian mob but touches on some of the others and their rivalries.
 

Zachary The First

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June 26, 2007, 05:36:31 PM
Quote from: WarthurI think that's unlikely. Towards the end of the other recent thread on this subject, Quire pointed out that Matt had said this about the Grail when asked whether it would be a D20 or Runequest product:



If it were Traveller5 we were talking about, there wouldn't be any question of using D20 or RQ. I can't see Marc Miller just junking the rules set he's designed for Traveller5 just so that Mongoose would publish it, and there's already a D20 version of Traveller out there.

I wouldn't discount the idea that Mongoose will enter a publishing deal with Far Future to print and distribute Traveller5 (they can sink far more capital into the project than Far Future can), but it's not the Holy Grail. Maybe it would qualify as a Grail back in its late 1970s/early 1980s heydey, but I'm left with the strong impression that bad handling by GDW (Traveller: the New Era ring any bells, folks?) and the failure of Traveller4 has left Traveller with a much-depleted share of the market.

Then again, he might be being deliberately opaque. :D


Really, though, who the hell knows what their idea of the "Holy Grail" is.  Trav is a helluva line to be involved with, but who knows?
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June 26, 2007, 06:26:02 PM
Quote from: jeff37923If they have the same distributor as when the Starship Troopers miniatures game came out, they are fucked. That distributor was Gameboard, under the guise of Knoxville Fulfillment Company - the same ones who pissed off Green Ronin and Margaret Weiss Productions with crappy customer service.

I'm pretty sure Gameboard has gone under. At least, both their retail spaces here in Knoxville have been bought by others.
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jeff37923

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June 26, 2007, 06:42:20 PM
Quote from: SigmundI'm pretty sure Gameboard has gone under. At least, both their retail spaces here in Knoxville have been bought by others.

Its actually a shell game. Gameboard, Nords, Sci-Fi City, Studio 2 Publishing, and Knoxville Fulfillment Company are all owned by the same people. When one business started losing a lot of money, they declared bankruptcy on that business and sold off the remains another business that they also owned. The only part of Gameboard that has actually been lost was when the sold their retail distribution department to Blackhawk.

I used to work for Gameboard, it was not a happy thing.
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Sigmund

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June 26, 2007, 07:32:01 PM
Quote from: jeff37923Its actually a shell game. Gameboard, Nords, Sci-Fi City, Studio 2 Publishing, and Knoxville Fulfillment Company are all owned by the same people. When one business started losing a lot of money, they declared bankruptcy on that business and sold off the remains another business that they also owned. The only part of Gameboard that has actually been lost was when the sold their retail distribution department to Blackhawk.

I used to work for Gameboard, it was not a happy thing.

I see. I was offered a position at their warehouse, but the money they offered was insulting. As much as I would have enjoyed working with RPGs, I couldn't accept their terms. Now I suppose I'm glad I didn't.
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