Re: Traveller and Space: 1889
In reply to #5811 Space:1889 by Robert S. Dean
> Bundle: 483 > Archive-Message-Number: 5811 > Date: Mon, 26 Jul 93 14:28:29 EDT > From: Robert S. Dean [email removed] > Subject: Space:1889 > > I think that Space:1889 is a little bit out of our charter, but what the > heck. I don't really agree with that. In many ways Space:1889 is much closer to Classic Traveller than T:TNE. Just look at it: Traveller Space:1889 ========= ========== Zhodani Belgians Vagar Flying Martians Grandfather Ancient Weird Tech Jump Message Routes Mirror communication network Emperor Strephon Queen Elizabeth High Guard Ironclads and Etherflyers Striker ??? The miniatures rules Space Opera Adventures Space Opera Adventures Strange Alien Civs Strange Alien Civs archeological wonders archeological wonders dead civilizations dead civilizations to be looted to be looted . . . . . . As you can see there are lots and lots of stuff that the two games have in common. > From: Colin Roald [email removed] > Subject: Re: Space:1889 > > > [email removed] (Derek Wildstar) writes: > > > > > appeals to gamers who actually read (and enjoyed reading) the source > > > material: Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs. The > > > rest just don't understand it. And most of the current generation of > > > role-players, born around when Star Wars came out give or take a few > > > years, just haven't done the reading, either because they don't read > > > much, or because they aren't interested. > > Or because those books are hard to find, or because there's such a vast > amount of classic sf around to read that they haven't gotten around to > it yet. Give us a break, mon. Get real. The books are really cheap. Much cheaper than new paperbacks. Look in the classics section at larger bookstoors. Barns & Noble has lots of wonderful old stuff. You can pick up collections of all of the writings of various old authors. Matt - -- Matthew Goldman E-mail: [email removed] Work: [phone removed] When I'm shopping for a computer I don't look for the "Intel Inside" logo, I look for the "non-Euclidean Inside" logo.