Reply To: First impressions vs sustainability. Are looks more important than rules?

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“you’re not wrong but does that keep a game alive? Or just the IP? I know I’m splitting hairs here but that’s the whole point of this discussion.“

 

I think it does keep a game alive; Blood Bowl is an example you stated. I agree that the wide variety of minis and teams – GW and many others – have kept that game alive when so many other Specialist Games died. Largely due to a rabid fan base, too, who kept the Living Rulebook concept going far longer than other systems. Jervis Johnson set the parameters, but how many games lived?

Alive:

Blood Bowl – fan base support is wide and intense

Necromunda – mostly a reboot by GW but has some of the nicest minis in GW land.

Epic – somewhat alive in the form of Legions Imperialis.

RIP:

Mordheim

Warmaster

Battlefleet Gothic

Man O War

Gorkamorka

and many others…