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From: west@utcsri.UUCP (Thomas L. West)
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Subject: Re: Judges Guild?
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Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 16:02:22 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  2 16:02:22 1985
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Summary: 


 1) Arneson settled out of court with TSR for an undisclosed sum
of money.  It is rumoured to have reasonably substantial, but not
enourmous.  The reason for this court case was that Arneson, while
receiving royalties from TSR for D+D, did NOT receive any for AD+D,
since he was not a direct author.  He claimed that since he was the
inventor of half the system (the magic half, I have heard, EGG did the
combat half), he should have received something for the 'new edition'
of D+D.

 2) Judges Guild has had a falling out with TSR *and* GDW (Traveller).
They thus have lost the priveledge of making officially AD+D approved
anything. (Same with Traveller).  I don't know if they underwent legal'
proceedings, but as one can guess, this has put Judges Guild on the back-burner
for a while.  They aren't bankrupt (yet.) but they are planning very few
new releases.

  Tom West			'Serve the Computer
				 The Computer Is Your Friend.'
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