From: David Cake (davidc@cs.uwa.oz.au)
Date: Tue 04 Jan 1994 - 17:29:47 EET
> I lean towards Gloranthan material, not so much because I prefer Glorantha,
> but because (other than art) I have come to expect that Gloranthan RQ
> material is of higher quality than non-Gloranthan.
>
Actually, I would just say that Chaosium produced stuff is higher quality than
Avalon Hill produced. I think that the RQ Earth stuff was good quality, which I
think was Chaosium produced, and the AH stuff (including the obviously intended
to be Gloranthan Eldarad) was bad. But then again I didn't like griffon Island,
which was Chaosium. Gloranthan stuff does seem to sell better.
> ># position is to get reviews in the magazines and get some hype going so
> ># the game store owners will feature it. Heck, with reviews and hype US
> ># shops might even *order* copies of adventures so that consumers don't
> ># have to special-order all their RQ material, as they do now.
> >
> >Like I've said before, Jack Dott has to hear more stories like this.
> >I've brought it to his attention, and he just ~doesn't believe~ that
> >an AH product isn't available on the shelves...
>
> It is absolutely true, in Seattle I've had to go to multiple game stores to
> find stuff and even then have had trouble. RuneQuest just isn't carried
> enthusiastically. You tend to find stuff like the boxed character sheets,
> and not much else.
>
Australia must be special, the game stores here actually have great problems
getting enough stuff from the distributors, which causes ocassional shortages,
but they all stock as much as they can. I think the distributors have trouble
because it sells well in the Eastern states (where they enter Australia), and
so they sell most of their stock there.
Cheers, Dave
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