To Byran Borich: hello. With regards to "racoonids" I am not the
author of them - one of the people in my weekly traveller game
invented them several years ago, and we've been playing with them ever
since. We have a write-up which we were thinking of sending to
Challenge, but since we had character generation rules based on MT, we
decided to drag our feet and see what sorts of new character
generation rules we would get with TNE. (Now that Imperiallines is
coming out, we may send it there instead - we haven't decided.) I will
upload the basic write-up to this list over the week-end, but folks,
we really would like to get some comments back please. We've tried
very hard in our traveller game not to make them funny little people
in fuzzy suits, but rather real aliens.
About the "space opera" character of the name "Racoonid": that the
name was like-unto-space-opera had never crossed our minds. It
sounded like as good a name as any, and it _is_ desciptive.
Alternatively, have you ever stopped to think just how space-operish
"Aslani" is?!? ;->
Catie Helm
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