Miniatures and substitutes:
I've got about a section of fully-armed, battle-dressed 15mm lead figures that
I just adore. 'Course the SJG cardboard heros generally fit in much better for
adventure-type scenarios. I'd also be interested in any current suppliers of
15mm (or 25mm) hi-tech lead/plastic/paper figures. If something similar to
"cardboard heroes" could be made available via FTP, I'd be ecstatic. :)
Merchant campaigns:
I'd be up for it, but since I just re-read all 7 of the foundation novels by
Asimov, and he only devoted a few sections of the series to the merchant-
princes, I wonder how much general interest there would be. OTOH, that was
several centuries of the first Foundation's history, so maybe it'd be
worthwhile.
Books:
Asimov's future history (gotta read it, if not love it.)
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead
Rules:
One of the things that I liked about Striker was that it allowed one to view
(or hide) as much detail of the encounter as seemed necessary. Small
encounters could be on a smaller scale, with each individual visible while
large-scale encounters (battles) could be viewed on a large-scale map, with the
represented units being considerably larger, as well.
The other part was the design rules, _finally_ (historically) we had a
nutznboltz method of creating things.
I'd also like to see something equivilant to Trillion Credit Sqadron, and Fifth
Fronteir War.
That said, I think I can summarize my feelings by saing that it would be really
really cool to have a system (or integrated set of systems) that would allow
one to interact with various scales of the univers that surrounds, not just
militarily, but economically, politcally, etc.
Excelsior!
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