Re: [DL] Re: [Savage_Worlds] Re: Savage Deadlands

[Horace Black <horaceblack@yahoo.com>]

  Shane,
  I appreciate your response and that you're a stand
up guy who keeps his word.  That's one of those things
you don't really own until you've paid the price for
it (which you have).
  How about letting other companies do classic
Deadlands, HOE and LC work, like you had talked about
with Mystic Eye Games (at least I think that their
name).  Another idea might be PDFs of fan related
article or a PDF quarterly magazine.
  Just some food for thought.
                                 Horace Black




--- PEGShane@aol.com wrote:
> Hey Horace,
> 
> I understand your opinion on LC. The truth is I
> never should have printed it 
> at all from a financial point of view. The steam had
> long run out by then and 
> I took a bath, even with recycled art from the card
> game.
> 
> I knew I would too. Same thing on the Companion.
> 
> So why did I do it? Because I said I would, and Nick
> Zacharaisan (and a lot 
> of folks like him, but Nick is always the one I
> think of) has been following 
> the story since the beginning and deserved to have
> it wrapped up as best as I 
> could afford to do.
> 
> I'd love for it to have been the full line it was
> originally envisioned to 
> be, complete with a cool horror-based minis game and
> everything, but that just 
> wasn't the market reality (nor PEG"s reality) at the
> time. And it won't be now 
> that the market is SOOOO different.
> 
> (Quick lesson: A strong line with dozens of
> sourcebooks (ala Deadlands) used 
> to be the standard. Now it's "What's new?" You can
> blame the D20 glut or 
> collectible games, but no matter the cause, that's
> the way it is. (We call this 
> being a "frontlist" industry instead of being a
> "backlist" industry.) So evolve 
> or die. The new model I have for SW is dead on for
> today's market, and I don't 
> think it will ever revert. That's just my opinion,
> of course, but it's shared 
> by folks like Chris at FFG--hence about 5 books for
> Midnight and DragonStar 
> rather than 50, and the Horizons line that does
> quickies like Grimm and Redline.)
> 
> Take care all!
> 
> Shane
> 


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