To me, the first mistake was tying the system to the 3I. If they had come up with the OGL system before WOTC did, and made it explicit that the 3I was not the only setting to publish for CT, gaming could be a lot different. And GDW could still be around today.

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 17:19 Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 6:37 PM Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:
On 4/4/2019 5:56 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
> IMO, MT was the 1st mistake while TNE was 'merely' the compounding
> fatal one.

GDW lost me when they killed Strephon and didn't get me back until GURPS Traveller said it was all a [TV "Dallas"] bad dream.
 
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"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.

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