What's funny is that it was out of print once before. When our license from White Wolf (which was inherited from Lion Rampant, with whom we'd originally made the arrangement) expired, we had a window of time to dispose of remaining inventory. We sold off most of the Ars stuff we had left at steep discounts, therefore, back in 1993 or so. Fast forward three years, and we were the owners of Ars Magica itself. A couple of stray cartons of the old licensed adventures turned up among stuff we'd hauled up from the garages down in Northfield where I used to keep Atlas inventory, and as the games owners we were able to put them back on sale again. I suspect that most distributors and retailers never restocked the items, however -- they just left them as out of print. So sales were not especially huge. They did sell down, though. Now all we have left from that era are a few copies of Trial by Fire...plus, of course, the stock that remains at Warehouse 23.
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