From: [m w lucas] at [vela.acs.oakland.edu] (Michael W. Lucas)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.misc
Subject: Re: TSR acquires DANGEROUS JOUNREYS
Date: 23 Mar 1994 13:30:36 GMT

	I spoke with one of the GDW staff members for a while last night,
musing over the whole DJ situation and the idiocy of being in this
business in general.  Some of the things he told me (apart from the
impossibility of getting a good pizza near GDW) include:

*	The GDW staff is quite happy to be rid of DJ.  Everybody
there hated the game.  Their contract with Gygax said that he had to
approve everything they published (down to individual illustrations).
They weren't allowed to touch his writing, and so on.
	Besides, as several people have mentioned, it was a poor seller.

*	TSR *might* not kill DJ.  Several people up there want to keep it
going.  Apparently they like the system more than xD&d, and if you can change
the writing it's not a bad game.  IMHO, DJ is probably a better game than
xD&D, if someone else reads the rules, changes the acronyms, and explains
it all to you.
	The accountants will probably axe it, but you never know.  
After all, Gygax probably has the highest name-recognition factor in 
the industry.
	Then again, I know of two GDW staffers that went to TSR to avoid
Dangerous Journeys.  They'll probably believe that the game is following
them...  8-)
	Anyway, this point is speculation.  TSR didn't know that they 
would acquire the game until last Monday, and they certainly haven't
told anyone their plans for it yet...

-- 
Michael Lucas
[m w lucas] at [vela.acs.oakland.edu]
Hot Tub Dragon Games
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