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This may enlighten the humour-impaired:

http://www.swordsorcery.com/gammaworld/#ggviewer-o ffsite-nav-9057360

See, and here I initially thought this should be rated "Funny" because the parent poster found it extremely hard to believe that anyone would still be playing Gamma World.

And here I was ready to provide that helpful link and everything...

I didn't know people still played this, but then again, I haven't RP'ed since TSR was still TSR...
Gamma World

Gamma world!

sadly TSR has gone downhill since being eaten by the [WotC] group [...] TSR jumped the shark with Ravenloft, not to mention Spell Jamming.

As others have pointed out, TSR published the Ravenloft and Spelljammer campaign settings long before Wizards of the Coast bought TSR. More to the point, many fans regard the Ravenloft setting as one of the high points of the TSR years, because of its sharp sense of the Gothic horror genre. Wizards sold the line to White Wolf Game Studio, which continues to publish it under its Arthaus imprint.

As for Spelljammer, that was my own favorite AD&D campaign setting (along with Al-Qadim, the Arabian Nights setting). I had great fun writing the first Spelljammer module, WILDSPACE. Unfortunate much of the support line failed to live up to the premise's potential.

I found it interesting that some outfit called 'Swords and Sorcery Studios' has partnered with Blizzard to put out the Dungeons & Dragons WarCraft RPG too. I'm sure there's a couple of geeks who still get off on spinning 20 sided dice for kicks.

Story is here. NOTE: This is NOT a computer game, its the same D&D we all had a crack at/obsessed over in our teens. Although a video game version would be pretty cool to see in the future.

White Wolf, of all people (through thier Sword and Sorcery division), created a d20-compatable Ravenloft sourcebook.