From:	GRANITE <granite@**.net>
Subject:	Re: sidebars and trainingwheels
Date:	Mon, 09 Sep 1996 22:15:29 -0700

Steven A. Tinner wrote:
> So play it that way, but realistically there's no way you're ever gonna be
> playing SR the same as "everyone else."


Oh..I realise this..However, I like to GM in Cons..I will be going to one in
FL the first part of JAN...I like to run a game that anyone who joins in will
-for the most part- know what the rules are to begin with..none of those home
grown "Well this is the way I do it because I don't like the way it is in the
rules." stuff..This is why I use what is presented as much as possible...If
it appears in one of the gaming products then...

> There are so many unanswered questions, gaps in knowledge, and again,
> deliberate misdirections that it's highly unlikely two people would ever
> develop convergent game worlds.


True..but similar one..You bet..That is the sort of thing I shoot for...

> Sure you can come close, and I'm nit picking here.
> I still have to say that most of the sidebar comments are misdir.
> Sure, a lot of it is useful as explanations, but FASA comes right out and
> says that that's for each GM to decide.


Yes, that is true as well FASA does say that..However, that is your GM choice
to concider the sidebar stuff to be mostly hot electrons...I look on it as
another source of clarifications as to exactly what did they mean when they
said that..


> Seen the Denver sourcebooks?


Yup..I helped run the first FASA official type tourneyment at GenCon for
the Denver boxed set..I thought it was kind of a pain...But boy did we have
fun running the players through it.. :)

> Trying to play an "official" game, or the same as everyone else is not only
> impossible, it would be very, very dull.


Nothing is impossible..And I am rarely dull...Well mostly rarely..well ok
sometimes I can be dull..But not when I am GMing...

> Misdirection? Oh yeah!
> Start saying that it's all official rules material and you get some awfully
> odd stuff floating around.
>

Odd stuff floating around??Orks and Trolls are normal?? :)
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-------------------------------GRANITE