Subj : Re: 3rd edition website
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From : mbottorff@sprintmail.com
Date : Wed Oct 18 2000 09:35 am

From: mbottorff@sprintmail.com (Michelle & Boyd Bottorff)
Subject: Re: 3rd edition website
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> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jason Tamez wrote:
> 
> > I'm stalled on the combat section in my read. This stuff bores me. ;)
> 
> The only combat section of a rpg that I ever *enjoyed* reading was that
> in _Amber Diceless Role-playing_.
> 
> A friend has raved to me about John Wick's _Orkworld_, which is much more
> culture and setting than system.  She's raved about the worldbuilding,
> which these days I look for more in a rpg than system.  I have my pick of
> systems that I know work well for me (L5R, Over the Edge, Fighting 
> Fantasy, GURPS, others).  But a good, well-thought-out setting--that's
> rarer.  (Forgotten Realms IMHO doesn't qualify, though it can be fun.)

Forgotten Realms is about as well-thought-out as the "background" to
most fighting video games-- enough to satisfy the munchkins who just
want to Beat Things Up.  "Over here, we have GoodGuyLand.  This is
Druidland.  Here's EvilEmpireLand, and there's MageLand.  In the next
expansion, we'll have AsiaLand, then MidEastLand.  Oh, and every
bartender will have to be at least fifth level-- the quality bars will
be staffed by no one less than tenth."

There's far too much polarizaion in FR.  A certain amount of it is
needed in most campaigns, but not as much as FR got.  

I much preferred SpellJammer.

-- Boyd

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