From:	Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject:	Re: Old Age Runners (Was: Re: Sex & the Single
Date:	Thu, 7 May 1998 09:41:17 +0100

And verily, did Erik Jameson hastily scribble thusly...
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|At 04:34 PM 5/6/98 -0600, you wrote:
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|>I know how you feel. It makes me want to start a thread about... back
|>in SR1, the rules were.. or back before SR, we had to write our own RPG
|>using T$R rules as the base.
|
|Ah, SR1 and autosuccesses and variable staging. Hey, I bet the kiddies
|haven't ever heard of 3L1 or 5D4 damage codes, eh? Now THAT complicated
|combat.

Ay, but it were a lot more fun back then.
When someone shot a vindicator minigun at you in the old days, you KNEW
about it. And the DRAIN codes! None of this f/2S bunkum.

We had REAL drain codes back then, like L1, S3, and I challenge ANYONE not
to suffer some drain after the dreaded D4....

*sigh*
It's just not the same anymore.

|>Maybe we should start our own rest home.
|
|Hey, it could be like Gurth's Stairs, but only us old folks are allowed in.
| We could play shuffle board and cribbage and gum our meals!

Sign me up.

|>(Who played back when there were TWO german states.)
|
|You know what the sad thing is? There are plenty of people on this list
|who simply have no recollection of living like that, who only know about
|the Cold War from books and school. Some of us geezers actually grew up
|with the spectre of the Red Menance and Global Thermonuclear War.
|
|Ah, enough of this OT stuff. Somebody, set up the Old Folks Home so us
|gezzers have some place to rest our weary bones and soak our teeth.

Yup. Although my teeth aren't QUITE that bad yet...

:)
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