Subj : Re: 3rd edition website
To   : All
From : yl112@cornell.edu
Date : Wed Oct 18 2000 10:21 am

From: yl112@cornell.edu
Subject: Re: 3rd edition website



On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Michelle & Boyd Bottorff wrote:

> > 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."

ROTFL!  The high level bartenders have been a running joke among the 
gamers I know.

> 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.

I liked the ideas I heard about it, but never actually got around to 
finding a copy, and I've frozen book acquisitions for the nonce.  It and 
Al-Qadim were the only xD&D settings that sounded like they'd be fun.  
(Well, Ravenloft for dark and stormy nights, but around here you'd have 
far better luck putting together a Vampire game if you want any sort of 
vampire goings-on.)

YHL

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