From:	Stephen Delear <shadow@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: Sr Companion
Date:	Sat, 30 Nov 1996 21:36:01 -0600

On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Jonathan Hurley wrote:

> NightLife[SMTP:habenir@******.SAN.UC.EDU] wrote:
> >Picked up the Comapion today glacing through it. New creation rules umm..
> >garbage. Complete rip off of the merit and flaws out of white wolf and
> >gurps. Variant race ohhh even more elves with no penalities. Skills and
> >training that good they been needed for a long time now. The rest of it ok
> >but not all that usefull to anyone but a new gm.
>
>
> Wow, I had a completely different reaction.
>
> One, I like the new point-based character generation system. Two, the
> Edges/flaws are MUCH closer to GURPS than to WW (WW stole the concept from
> GURPS/Hero anyway. Originatily aside, the concept is nice. Necessary, maybe
> not. But nice)

Yes but Ars Magica had virtues/flaws before GURPS came out. WW merged
with Lion Rampant however using character points for Virtue/flaw points
was stollen from GURPS.

>



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>
> >From a Gateway 2000 manual:
> Sucking all the chips off your system board with an industrial strength
> wet/dry vac is not covered by your warranty
> mailto:jhurley1@******.stevens-tech.edu
>
SteveD