| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | SR Narrowing of focus |
| Date: | Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:03:34 -0400 |
>The focus has *always* been on criminals. I don't understand what most of
>you are griping about, since if anything it's a return to the *original*
Easy- you can restart with new characters all you want, but if the runs
are the same thing over, and over, and over, and over, and over, people get
bored with the game.
"Not another batch of bugs, we've killed them by the thousands!"
"It's another snatch-and-grab. Yawn."
A lot of this about bad roleplaying, but GMs aren't a limitless pool of
ideas. While we all specialize in a certain kind of op, it helps to have
fresh materials every now and then, and printing new crap that is same old
run gets boring after a while.
FASA's way of dealing with it is to jump ahead five years. While that is
OK, it screws with the histories that GMs might have developed. (ie, The
CFS retakes San Diego, but the last Azzie Colonel to leave the city pulled
the pin on a nuke.) I also disagree with it because it forces people to
upgrade and buy the novels to find out what the hell is being talked about
in sourcebooks. (The first time I read a reference to Dunk's death, it
shocked the hell out of me, almost as much as him having been elected.)
I like then mid-50's, and am advancing at my own rate, but I get sick of
FASA saying that if you want to be able to use the new materials without
extensive editing of the books and having to look over everyone's houlders
during character creation to make sure they don't grab somehting that isn't
availalable yet. I don't know about anyone else, but think forcing
time-line acceleration on players and GMs alienates people to varying degrees.
>focus.
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Kevin Dole, aka CyberRaven, aka IronRaven, aka Steel Tengu
http://members.xoom.com/iron_raven/
"Once again, we have spat int he face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
"'Impossible' is a term used by those of little imagination or intelligence
to describe that which they can not understand."
