| From: | Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: FASA's On/Off Course? |
| Date: | Tue, 5 May 1998 09:56:00 EDT |
writes:
> I haven't enjoyed the storylines in recent years very much, to be honest.
> I liked Bug City and most of the stuff before that, but what came after
> was a bit so-so for my taste. (Note that I'm talking about source material
> which advances the "universe storyline" here, not rulebooks.) Mike
> Mulvihill seems to have definite ideas where things should go, but from
> what I've seen of them they're not really going where I'd like them to.
Wow, when I think about it, the storyline in general, I guess I would almost
have to agree with you. You can almost feel when Mr. Mulhillvil IMO took
control, as that was when the (the FASA Universe) started to "clean up" the
mess(es) left from the previous conTROLLers ( :P). I personally think I
would have been just fine with "Bug City" remaining for many years instead of
just a few.
> For one thing I don't like the annual storylines, where we have "the year
> of crime," "the year of the corps," and so on. Neither do I like the
idea
> of having everything stepped up a notch to some kind of higher stakes
> game, like it was supposed to after Dunkelzahn died.
The "Year of ..." stuff doesn't bother me overall, just the degree of massive
change. We were taught (is 'Taught a good word for this?) that if a Megacorp
should change, then it would have many visible, viable shakings of the World
Economic Tree. That didn't happen readily in the case of Fuchi/Novatech. In
fact, the BitB book does make things happen over a 2 year period for that,
BUT, we as the players have been given no interaction with it or comprehension
of it until that book came out, which ends up with the "current timeline" in
the FASA story suite.
> Not that I know where it all should go instead... :)
I think FASA is like most of the world...they don't -know- where they are
really going yet.
> I guess that counts as an "off course" vote...
One OFF
-K
