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Message no. 1
From: "Leszek Karlik, aka Mike" <trrkt@*****.ONET.PL>
Subject: Archetypes and templates (was Re: A little Gaming History(Was -
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 14:35:28 +0000
On 15 Mar 98, Ereskanti disseminated foul capitalist propaganda by
writing:

<snip>
> SR is, as far as I know, the only RPG with "quick play" characters
[...]
> Anyone with knowledge of the other major gaming systems, please,
> feel free to leap in and correct me, but essentially I think I am
> correct.

Actually, as far as I am concerned, nobody in our group plays the
archetypes from the BBB. They suck. ;>

What's more, Star Wars has templates, which are very useful, and much
more flexible than FASA's archetypes. (And there's even a whole
sourcebook with templates only - Heroes & Rogues).


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Message no. 2
From: AirWisp <AirWisp@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Archetypes and templates (was Re: A little Gaming History(Was
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 09:16:16 EST
In a message dated 98-03-15 08:34:05 EST, you write:

> Actually, as far as I am concerned, nobody in our group plays the
> archetypes from the BBB. They suck. ;>

Yeah, but they are generic enough in the sense that Keith was trying to come
across with ... if someone from Star Wars is playing Luke and someone else is
playing Luke also then there is bound to be some form of conflict from the
different rp'ing styles of the two people.

> What's more, Star Wars has templates, which are very useful, and much
> more flexible than FASA's archetypes. (And there's even a whole
> sourcebook with templates only - Heroes & Rogues).

I like the contacts templates from some of the sourcebooks, make for some
interesting pc archetypes also ... ever hear of a fixer deciding that getting
back into the game is better than trying to be a player of the game ?

Mike
Message no. 3
From: Nexx <nexx@********.NET>
Subject: Re: Archetypes and templates (was Re: A little Gaming History(Was
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 12:38:48 -0600
> Actually, as far as I am concerned, nobody in our group plays the
> archetypes from the BBB. They suck. ;>

Newbie Question: BBB = Big, Black, Book, the SR Main Book, right?

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