@ Ars Mysteriorum:
Ah, well - I see your point. However, many of the early Chaosium products
have even been worse than average Mongoose products, including the first
edition of Runequest, and for me the more important point is the fact that
those old games are printed, packaged - and sold. In my opinion it is better
to have a subperfect edition of the game available than none at all.
@ Atgxtg:
On the other hand, dozens of the out-of-print-RPGs are now available again
as PDFs, and some of them even have managed to gather new communities
around them (see Star Frontiers), and have started a "second life" that is
in some cases even more vibrant than it was when they were in print.
Back then, it was often quite a problem to find another person who played
something like FTL: 2448 or Fringeworthy and wrote material for it, nowadays
the Internet makes it comparatively easy to make useful contacts that keep
even "fringe" games alive.
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