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From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject: Re: [OT] Champions
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 11:43:39 -0700
Brett Borger wrote:
/
/ > AD&D is always twisted, but its still fun. (I remember riding on
/ > the back of a dragon, stabbing it repeatily with a +3 dagger, somehow
/ > I lived through it, go figure).
/
/ Wow, talk about death by a thousand paper cuts!
/
/ Yeah, as bad as the system is, there is a huge appeal to that. I
/ wonder if it is the setting, the magical items, or what? I know one
/ of my loves of it is that there isn't one setting. I often create
/ worlds very different from others.....
/
/ In SR we all tend to have just one world...(1/GM that is)

That's cuz SR only has one storyline (or set of published books if
you want). AD$D can be used for Lord of the Rings, Conan, Tarzan,
King Arthur, the Crusades, etc. Not that I don't love SR :)

-David
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Art is knowing which ones to keep."
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