Re: PBeM

From: Phil Shulkind <phil@phildee.demon.co.uk>

Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Greg Lindahl <lindahl@rt.com> writes
>
>I believe that there are several little-known US companies who do make
>a living out of it. I was always told that the Williams brothers (of
>RIP fame in the US BSE game) were employed full-time moderating RPG's
>in the early 1980's. It may be that no one in the UK is going it, but
>it would be easy for us to not know that much about them if they
>didn't advertise.

Could well be true, but then it's not possible to do something commercially
without advertising or publicity in some shape or form. It's also likely that
someone running a commercial RPG as a sole income wouldn't be able to
afford to advertise. From my experience, I'd say it's impossible to process
enough turns at a high enough turnfee for it to be commercially viable.

It depends also on how you define an RPG, I wouldn't consider BSE to be
one.

Phil Shulkind
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