A sick as it may sound to some, this could be an awesome product. After the WTC, anti-terrorist themed videos and computer games were flying off store shelves. The question is content and presentation? If the topic is handled right (i.e. seriously) it might be good therapy for the many people that have a lot of pent up emotion and anxiety to work off. Not only that, it may introduce new players to the wonders of role-playing. Of course, handled badly it could be the next role-playing=Satanism, or rather revised and updated role-playing=anti-Arab/Muslim. I have to agree though, How many war gamers have done the D-Day invasion in the comfort of their own living rooms?
Dallas -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] Uhm...joke or not? (Holistic, please respond) In a message dated 1/16/02 12:52:32 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << This is almost as bad tasting as the Alf telethon I was forced to watch last month. >> Why? Why is this product any worse than, say, GURPS WWII, which allows players to roleplay soldiers fighting against the Nazis, or worse than RECON, which allows players to roleplay soldiers fighting against the North Vietnamese or Viet Cong, or Dungeons & Dragons, which allows players to roleplay adventurers fighting against the evil orc hordes, or Sengoku, which allows players to roleplay samurai fighting against the enemy samurai clans, or Traveller, which allows players to roleplay adventurers fighting against the "evil alien empires," or any other product with a similar premise? Oh, the terrorism thing is too close to home, some might say. Well, is it closer to home than the above products? Where do you draw the line of what tastes "bad" and what tastes "good?" It's not as if they announced "World Trade Center: d20" where players roleplay a rescue worker or (Heaven forbid) a victim. Mark Arsenault President, Gold Rush Games | http://www.goldrushgames.com Executive Director, Game Publishers Association | http://www.thegpa.org ------------------------------------------------------- Action! System Beta rules! - http://www.action-system.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
