On 3/9/06, Kurt Feltenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Frankly, I thought it sucked. How's that? All the other items you > list have legs in popular science fiction. A malicious computer > virus that will make your cell phone hate you, that's not that > prevalent in works of the time.
When I'm reading a novel, I rarely complain to myself that "none of these plot elements have been used repeatedly as recognizable tropes in all the other books I've read". I rather enjoy an idea that hasn't been rehashed a few dozen times - even if it's rough around the edges. I have issues with the explanation of Virus and its function, but it inspires me towards good fiction - which is what a roleplaying game does, at its best. I'm not going to complain that they neglected to rehash some story about zombies/borg/cultists/clone-drones. > >I'm sure each of us could > >come up with plenty of anecdotes and hearsay to support our respective > >positions, but I doubt that either of us could back it up with > >anything more substantial than that. > > Perhaps. I know that the groups I ran with at the time at three > different game shops universally dumped the game and went back to > something else. Yep. Anecdotes and hearsay. My own anecdote: I collect TNE books 'cause I enjoy ideas for variant storylines. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
