From:	"Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM>
Subject:	Dark Conspiracy (Was - Re: FASA Being Sold? Semi-OT?)
Date:	Fri, 18 Jul 1997 02:32:20 -0400

> > Whoa...back the truck up. The what? Have you ever played Dark
Conspiracy?
> > If you're going to say that DC is a rip off of Sr, then perhaps you
better
> > mention how Sr is a rip off of Cyberpunk and AD&D. Or are you just
> > mindlessly rude?
> And DC is definitely not a ripoff of SR anyway, that's plain silly.

Yep, I played a LOT of DC when it first came out, and it left me cold.
Poor systems "borrowed" from T2000, lack of any useful Psionics for PC's
and the need to buy several sourcebooks to actually make the game playable
left me quite disillusioned with what could have been a great game.

You mean to say that you don't find it slightly curious that GDW dumped DC
onto the market almost immediately after SR became hot? Have you read
Stackpole's "Fiddleback" Trilogy set in the DC world? It's VERY similar to
SR IMO.

Oh, and SR is actually a ripoff of Cyberpunk, and Tolkien, get it right!
;-)

Did I ever say that being a ripoff was a BAD thing? No.

On the whole I thought that DC had a LOT of potential, but was hindered by
a shabby rules system, and a lack of support.

Oh yeah, one more thing. I'm never "mindlessly" anything.
My rudeness is carefully thought out just so as to give seizures to
hypersensitive people defending dead games.

That pretty much sums up my feelings on the merits of DC. It died, SR
lives. Nuff said.

Steven A. Tinner
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