From: owner-the-edge-digest@ (The Edge Digested) To: the-edge-digest@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us Subject: The Edge Digested V1 #33 Reply-To: the-edge@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us Sender: owner-the-edge-digest@ Errors-To: owner-the-edge-digest@ Precedence: bulk The Edge Digested Saturday, March 14 1998 Volume 01 : Number 033 Today's subjects from The Edge: [The Edge] sanity max. [The Edge] Theme Tunes Re: [The Edge] Re: The Edge Digested V1 #31 Re: [The Edge] Re: The Edge Digested V1 #31 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 02:19:25 -0600 (CST) From: David Ebrey Subject: [The Edge] sanity max. I have come to the unfortunately realization that one's sanity max is [99 - gaming industry mythos]. Sorry John Nephew, I am afraid you know too much. David - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Now I assert that every being who cannot act except under the Idea of freedom is by this alone--from a practical point of view--really free.... --Immanuel Kant [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:48:38 +0000 (GMT) From: "mark.wilkin" Subject: [The Edge] Theme Tunes I'm musing on how I'm going to do my first OtE campaign at the moment and I'm thinking of using music as theme tunes for characters, areas and particular stories. At the moment I've got, Sympathy for the Devil for Mr Compton Take a walk on side for the Adventure Morphia Soup from Forgotton Lives Most of the Dead Can Dance CD Into the Labyrinth just because it sounds like the Edge should. Any other bright ideas guy and gals? Mark Wilkin "Space is big, really big" [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:32:44 -0500 (EST) From: Tammy Tayman Subject: Re: [The Edge] Re: The Edge Digested V1 #31 On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, David Ebrey wrote: > What are they going to do, make Ravenloft a seperate company from Dark Sun? > Portal seperate from Magic? WotC/TSR is no where near monopoly; it is just > in a position that distributers focus all of their attention on them, which > truly is sad. I wonder what precentage of the gaming market is now > controled by WotC. Does anyone know? Um, not meaning to be rude or anything, but do you really know what a monopoly is? Just making games into separate sub companies doesn't do it. Ask Ma Bell. This is the reason why there are all the little Bell telephone companies out there. The Feds forced them to break up the company into actual separate corporations. WotC is doing the opposite. Several takeovers and buyoouts, like they have been doing, in different areas such as computers, communications and other big business have been blocked on the Federal level. And, yes, being a monopoly depends greatly on what portion of the market you control. T1 [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:20:07 -0800 (PST) From: "Adam T. Ness" Subject: Re: [The Edge] Re: The Edge Digested V1 #31 > Um, not meaning to be rude or anything, but do you really know what a > monopoly is? Just making games into separate sub companies doesn't do > it. Ask Ma Bell. This is the reason why there are all the little Bell > telephone companies out there. The Feds forced them to break up the > company into actual separate corporations. WotC is doing the opposite. > Several takeovers and buyoouts, like they have been doing, in different > areas such as computers, communications and other big business have been > blocked on the Federal level. And, yes, being a monopoly depends greatly > on what portion of the market you control. In any case, Games are realy just a small sub-section of the Book Publishing market. The only way that WotC/TSR could even come close to a monopoly would be if they bought out DelRey, Bantam, Houghton Miffin and a bunch of other large book publishers. The entire point is moot. By the way, If anyone has a chance to read _Running with the Demon_ by Terry Brooks, you really should. There's some good Edge-like imagery even though it occurs in a small town in Ohio. It's really a good book too. "Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so." - -- O'olish Amaneh from Terry Brooks, _Running with the Demon_ - -------- ICQ #3665941 [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ End of The Edge Digested V1 #33 ******************************* [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge-digest [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge-digest To get off digest, subscribe the-edge [O] To post a message, send it to the-edge@robin.ml.org