On 24 January 2013 06:16, Craige Cook > wrote:
> **
>
> THanks for the email Dave. Sorry for the confusion, sometimes I live a bit
> in the past. It was a (rare) slip of the finger on the keyboard. I meant
> Games Workshop, the designers of Warhammer 40k not Game Designers Workshop,
> yours and my favourite game designers. I was thinking of White Dwarf the
> gaming magazine which was once one of the better traveller/runequest/CoC
> periodicals and was appropriated by Warhammer 40k at some stage probably
> during the late 80' or early 90's. I'm really sorry for the slip Incidently
> those citadel paints are pretty good.
>
Back in the day, GW were the main importers, distributors and retailers of
RPG products into the UK, and they reprinted Traveller, RQ & CoC (and
probably some others) under licence, making them cheaper for us to buy.
WD was their house magazine so it advertised their products (i.e. pretty
much all RPGs).
After their success with Warhammer Fantasy Battle and buying Citadel
Miniatures, they started putting out their own games (Warhammer FRP, Judge
Dredd, Golden Heroes, etc.) and they started getting competition as
distributors so they increasingly focused on their own product lines, and
eventually realized that miniatures were their most profitable product line
so the RPG stuff went out the window.
--
Axel
> **
>
> THanks for the email Dave. Sorry for the confusion, sometimes I live a bit
> in the past. It was a (rare) slip of the finger on the keyboard. I meant
> Games Workshop, the designers of Warhammer 40k not Game Designers Workshop,
> yours and my favourite game designers. I was thinking of White Dwarf the
> gaming magazine which was once one of the better traveller/runequest/CoC
> periodicals and was appropriated by Warhammer 40k at some stage probably
> during the late 80' or early 90's. I'm really sorry for the slip Incidently
> those citadel paints are pretty good.
>
Back in the day, GW were the main importers, distributors and retailers of
RPG products into the UK, and they reprinted Traveller, RQ & CoC (and
probably some others) under licence, making them cheaper for us to buy.
WD was their house magazine so it advertised their products (i.e. pretty
much all RPGs).
After their success with Warhammer Fantasy Battle and buying Citadel
Miniatures, they started putting out their own games (Warhammer FRP, Judge
Dredd, Golden Heroes, etc.) and they started getting competition as
distributors so they increasingly focused on their own product lines, and
eventually realized that miniatures were their most profitable product line
so the RPG stuff went out the window.
--
Axel