Hi!
On Darrian psionics, as far as I know there hasn't been anything
published that indicated that they had highly advandced psionics
institutes, but there hasn't been anything that would indicate they
didn't, either. The Swords Worlds approach to Psionics would be
interesting too... their allies are the Zho's, but they come from
anti-psi Terran stock.
I was convinced by Frank Chadwick's explanation of (basically) why
he had chosen the combat system he did. I've only been shot,
I've never shot at anyone else, so I wouldn't nit-pick about
the specific conditions of the example. His point was, simply:
It's not as easy as you think to hit someone, and peoplea
are hard to kill. This is the basis of the combat system. As a
former critic of the combat system, I withdraw my complaint ;-)
TA: If you're running a 5th Frontier War campaign, do you have a
copy of the game? It's really very good, if you have a lot of time.
I used the moves a background for a campaign, and it worked really
well at providing realism, adventure ideas, and unexpected encounters
for the players.
Matt:
The Hexagonal group sounds like the Old Austria-Hungary Empire (or whatever
the formal name of it was). I remember reading a quote from the AH
foreign minister who said in 1870 that if the Empire didn't exist, something
would be needed to replace it.
Tim:
Frank provided an "average" example of combat in rugged conditions.
The Journal of Trauma probabaly only concerns itself with worst-case
senarios, so it will have higher death rates. They aren't likely to
write up "This guy got shot in the arm and but, we took out the slugs,
and he was fine" because that's not helpful to physicians. The
guy getting shot in the head (and his low probabilty of survival
after spraying his brains all over the other guy) is more helpful :-)
Matt "Mr. Agreeable" Goodman
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