I'd like to thank everyone for the rousing welcome I've received. I was rather
hoping to sneak in the back door and just stand quietly for a while, but it
seems that I'll have no such luck. (Ah, fame. |-> )
To answer some questions:
1. I have nothing to add to the miniatures discussion; I don't use them,
myself.
2. When I dash off fast letters on the VMS mail system, the text is written to
memory one line at a time. If I notice a typo on a previous line, there's no
way to undo the error. For longer messages (like this one), I use a text
editor like any other normal humanoid.
3. I will naturally inform the List if and when I get my grubby paws on the
full Imperial Atlas; and yes, I do run the Shattered Imperium stuff for my
campaign. (I, like just about everyone else, had an IRIS-like organization
screwing up game balance in my campaign LONG before the CHALLENGE articles.
|-> )
4. On wholesale nuclear devastation: doesn't anyone remember what happened to
Ganulph?
5. To those of you who saw the Near Miss story on rec.games.frp, hold your
noses... I'm going to rerun it for the benefit of those who hadn't seen it
before. It's a trial draft for a book I hope to submit to Digest Group later
this year. I'm open to suggestions on it; this is a more recent draft than the
one that ran in the newsgroup, and it'll be revised several more times before
the Digest Group editorial staff sees it.
And now a question to the Group in general: how popular are the alien races
for PCs in your campaigns, and which ones do people prefer? I'm partial to
Vargr, myself, and every now and then I get the feeling that I'm the only one
in the Orion Arm who runs them as anything other than greedy little cowards.
I have a friend who loves Hivers; he took naturally to the idea of
manipulation. (Heeyucko.) And is anyone running Aslan for anything other than
swift and merciless death?
hoping to hear from y'all soon....
metlay [email removed] or [email removed]
Xpander Users' Group: Email me for details.
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