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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Anders Swenson)
Subject: Why Chtulupunk and GURPS?
Date: Thu Aug 2 20:05:02 2001
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 23:58:21 +0200
"Lars Wagner Hansen" <l-hansen@*****.tele.dk> wrote:
>
> > -Cthulhupunk
>
> Which you unfortunately can't buy at the moment, but SJ
> has a new edition in
> production (maybe one reason for playing GURPS, nah...
> just bring the horrors
> back to SR).

I don't know about the new edition, but the first edition
GURPS Cthulupunk was very dissappointing because it was
merely a rehash of GURPS Cyberpunk followed by a sumary of
the Cthulu Mythos. I was hoping for something more,
something of a synergy building on both genres and making a
new thing, but it was not to be, at least not that time.
--Anders
Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Lars Wagner Hansen)
Subject: Why Chtulupunk and GURPS?
Date: Fri Aug 3 06:30:02 2001
From: "Anders Swenson" <anders@**********.com>
<Snip>
> I don't know about the new edition, but the first edition
> GURPS Cthulupunk was very dissappointing because it was
> merely a rehash of GURPS Cyberpunk followed by a sumary of
> the Cthulu Mythos. I was hoping for something more,
> something of a synergy building on both genres and making a
> new thing, but it was not to be, at least not that time.

Hmm... I actuallly only read the advertizing blub about Cthulhupunk, and though
it just sounded to cool to be true. It was however one of the GURPS books that I
had considere trying to get hold of, but now I'm not so sure.

What I read about Cthulhupunk, also inspired my own "Cthulhu goes Shadowrunning"
(which is still only available in danish at
http://home4.inet.tele.dk/l-hansen/sr-coc.html), and some day I might finish it,
and translate it to English.

Lars
--
Lars Wagner Hansen, Jagtvej 11, 4180 Sorø
l-hansen@*****.tele.dk http://home4.inet.tele.dk/l-hansen

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