"On multiple-time rumours, change the circumstances slightly and reword
the tale enough to avoid that "broken record" feeling."
This chaming piece of advice is part of a paragraph appearing in The
Flaming Eye next to the section on rumours. Not once but at least FOUR TIMES!
[and I haven't even finished it yet!) In other places the repeat the tasks
"To compute jump coordinates", "To prepare the jump drives for jump", and
"To engage the jump drives" verbatim from the rule books at least twice in
the scenario. This is boring and useless. This is boring and useless. This is
boring and useless. Sorry, it's just, it's just, begining to, it's just begining
to, become, become habit.
Not to mention stupid tasks like "To cross landing field safely in
a vehicle". It moderates mishaps but not failure.
P: "OK we undock the air/raft and drive over the base."
R: [rolling dice]. "You fail."
P: "We crash?"
R: "No. You just fail."
P: "So where are we?"
R: "Um. Halfway?"
P: "We keep driving."
R: [rolls again] ...
And this is "an exciting, high-paying mission." Yawn.
Jo Jaquinta
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P.S. So who out there plays Bunnies and Burrows? Want an e-mail game?