Re: [DL] Am I just lucky or something?

["Michael Maguire" <mikejmaguire@hotmail.com>]

I think it depends on your game store...  I recently changed game stores 
after almost 10 years of faithful loyalty, simply because the store I used 
to frequent no longer carries much that isn't what they consider "main 
stream" (which essentially means D20 in their minds, apparently).  They 
claim they will special order stuff, but it either costs way too much or 
they just can't get it.  At one point I was informed that their wholesalers 
considered Deadlands a "dead system" and thus didn't stock it anymore.

I was never so angry in my life...  I made the point of mentioning that few 
companies continue to publish large numbers of new materials for dead 
systems.  To make matters worse, some of their so called "main stream" D20 
stuff has been sitting on the shelf for over a year, whereas if they stocked 
the items people would want they'd sell (I've recently sunk over $500 into 
my beloved "dead system").

The good news is my friend and I simply took our money and our business to 
the other local gaming store.  They not only stock everything (D20 is not 
given any more space or attention than any other product on the shelves), 
and their prices are better.

My personal opinion is that sooner or later, D20 will die out...  it's an 
okay system for D&D (certainly better than the previous editiions), but it's 
seems kind of hit and miss in regards to how well it applies to other games. 
  In the case of Call of Cthulhu, for instance, I feel the old system is 
greatly superior to the D20 version.  Deadlands I never felt the need to 
really check out the D20 version, simply because I really liked the original 
and didn't feel the need to switch over.

Mac






----Original Message Follows----
From: Greg Vose <kitsune@xmission.com>
Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: [DL] Am I just lucky or something?
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 13:11:49 -0700

I have heard a lot from you folks about the D20 glut. Now there certainly
are a lot of D20 products out there but for my local store they really
aren't heavily stocked.  CCGs and 40K bring in far money than D20 could
hope to. Other RPGs are relatively well-represented.  It is possible that
this is because the owner and manager have been involved in gaming for 25+
years now and are willing to support other games.

Hero came back last year and was greeted with outstretched arms (of course
the manager is one of my old players from 15+ years back now and all I had
to do was tell him it was going to arrive in two weeks and he purchased and
sold 20-30 copies, perhaps more by now). I still think that there is plenty
of space for well-written game systems.

I guess we're just not seeing the D20 glut around here although the GAMA
materials brought back (other than the Shadowrun clix figs) were
predominantly D20 I will admit.


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