RE: [Epic] GOODBYE GW!

From: Andy Skinner <andy.skinner_at_...>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 11:30:00 EST

> I am divorcing myself of ALL GW products. I am going to have ONE
last
>game
> in which casualties ACTUALLY BECOME CASUALTIES! For those of you that
know
> me, you know that I am NOT kidding. By the end of this week, there
will
>not be ONE GW
> miniture in my house.
After college I gave away all my roleplaying stuff, including
Chivalry & Sorcery and Runequest 2. Not for the reasons you
give, I admit. But I sure regret that now. I tried to track
down the RQ stuff, but it had already been given to someone else.
I'd love to thumb through the books that inspired me so way
back then, even though I don't do any roleplaying these days.

If you think that GW once was something you could support,
and some of your figures are from that time, you could always
keep those in memory of a bygone era. (I know, I'm sounding
a little corny.) And GW didn't have the only sci-fi game
in that scale. Laser Forward and Dirtside II are current games,
and Days of Glory (I think) is coming out from somebody or other.
Both of the first two let you design values for the minis you
have. You could always augment them in the future with Ogre minis,
Renegade Legion hover tanks, whatever.

And Alan is right that you could prevent some money going to GW
by selling them to somebody. How many do you have, by the way?
You've sold (or at least advertised) here on the list for a while,
right? [I just noticed you are selling unopened blisters. I hadn't
seen that the first time through your message.]

But I guess your plan offers some fun and satisfaction not necessarily
to be gained any other way. I made some paper miniatures that can
be printed out on a PostScript printer, cut out, and folded and glued
into various tank chassis and turrets. They'd be a cheap way to crumple
up dead tanks for grins. :-)

andy
andy.skinner_at_...
Received on Tue Mar 11 1997 - 16:30:00 UTC