PAVEWAY sez:
}Is it because I
}am a non technically minded biologist that I get bored by
}kilobyte raves over this or that mathematical glitch in the
}rules? Does anyone lie awake at night worrying about where the
}energy from jumpspace actually GOES? I mean really?
} Does it matter what makes our ships go? surely the fact
}that they Go will do?
} In fairness tho' if TML is mainly populated by physicists
}and engineeers then parhaps it does matter to you, the same way
}the poorly thought out xenobiology gets up my nasal passages.
}But it would be nice to see some stuff about
}roleplaying.. sometimes.
Hum.
Well, speaking as a physics oriented sci type m'sef, I can
speculate as to why we get into physics more often than we do
into psionics, and even exo-biology, exo-psychology, chemistry,
engineering. Because, in the above fields we have too many
variables to deal with. A ref can always arbitrarily come up
with a wierd biology that 'does THIS neato thing'. We can
imagine big nasty semi-intelligent beasties with acid for blood
that some how just happen to require humans as a host to
reproduce in.
Ok, that's an extreme case. But you see, the ref can always
come up with a wierd chemistry or biochemistry or even
engineering solution that has X,Y,Z strange effects. Physics is
much more fundamental. There are a lot fewer laws to deal with,
and it is much easier to determine that effects R,S,T are
possible, but U,V,W are not. The bets get hedged when you head
into the other areas.
But, that is not to say that we can't or shouldn't talk about
wierd bio-chemistry and other stuff. Indeed sometimes us poor
non-bio types can get a lot of neato ideas from hearing about a
particularly weird animal... I remember a discussion off line a
while back on some kind of wierd frog that carried it's young
tadpoles around *Under* the skin of the female. When they were
'born' hundreds of these lil suckers ripped their way out through
the skin of the female. BLEAH! ICK! :-P
This is the sort of thing that inspires refs ta come up with el
wierdo creatures to make our poor players wake up screaming the
night after the game... So, Paveway, if you got any ideas like
that I'd *love* to hear 'em... |->
But, your question was actually about role playing. Hmm... Well,
I've been trying to supply a good story with the role playing,
what exactly is it you want to know?
} Speaking of which..... Remember the alien romance thread
}from am while back? There is now a pseudobio robot in my
}party...... go figure.
A pseudo-bio in an alien romance? Wierd... Wierd... I assume
that it is a pseudo-bio of a human, but if not, boy! That cud be
REAL weird... |->
2G Scott