Re: Bring on the Dancing Girls

R. Dired writes:
>It was comforting to know that GDW doesn't want any substantive imput for its
>new T2000 in Space...err, TNE. God knows that we wouldn't want a decent game
>system for once. No, not when we can have characters that can take a .50cal
>in the gut and keep going,

I agree with much of what you're saying, but I don't think realism is all
that's it cracked up to be, at least in connection with rpgs. Any game
system that portrays even modern weapons realistically, let alone futuristic
weaponry, is going to be death on the heroic style gaming that I, for one,
favour. I mean, even today you can make weapons where the only way to
survive getting shot at is to not get shot at. IMO science fiction weapons
cannot be too realistic. In fact, future technology as such cannot be too
realistic. I suspect that a TL 15 society would be a nice place to live in,
but a lousy place to have high adventures in.

>Can we assume that everything that could be fixed (should have been in MT)
>won't be? 2D universe? We'll keep that!

The 2D universe cannot be fixed without dumping the whole Imperium back-
ground. If I ever were to make up my own Traveller universe I'd make it
3D (it's not that hard), but I don't consider it a serious enough fault
to loose any sleep over.

>Hereditary nobility? Gotta have it!

What's wrong with hereditary nobility? The way nobility is implemented is
faulty, but I don't see anything wrong with nobility per se.

>Hard Times/Virus that makes Star Trek look like hard science? Give me more!

Yeah... well, when you're right, you're right!  ;-)

>Technology that looks like the Korean War in space? Keep it coming!

See above. Personally I'd go for the Napoleonic Wars in space.


      Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
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