| From: | Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: pope |
| Date: | Wed, 23 Mar 1994 15:50:14 -0700 |
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>> for Shadowtk.
>
>>>If we can play with governments, Corps, terrorists, AI's, Mafia, Yakuza, CIA
>>>etc. etc. Why not the Catholic Church. Is _really_ that big of a deal?
>
>It's one think to mess with governments and corps, it's an entirely different
>thing to kill the President or Damion Knight. IMHO killing the Pope falls
>in this catagory.
I disagree with that last statement. Yes killing Damion Knight is way out of
bounds, but I don't really think the Pope falls in this catagory. If I remember
correctly, they never even name the Pope in any of the books. As such he and
the catholic are fairly fair game (obviously we can't have someone blow up Rome
or collapse the Catholic Church). The basic Idea of the "Don't Screw with the
Books" thing is that it gives everyone a common basis to start off from. If a
Newbie comes in - he is going to expect LoneStar to be Seattle Police, Ares to
be a megacorp and TT to be owned by the elves. If things are not mentioned by
the books, they are MOSTLY fair game - just use discretion.
Of course, sometimes problems arise - Like Doctor Doom's Germany - many people
on the list really liked Doom's Germany - but we can't keep it (and haven't)
because FASA has put out material now (good material too). Unfortuanately this
leaves Doom with a character problem - but the other choice is to put his WHOLE
Germany rewrite into the FAQ.
Basically, someone as undescribed as the Pope is fair game - if a Newbie comes
in it probably won't matter WHO the Pope is.
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