Dane Johnson [email removed] asks:
>1. I know ALOT of people dislike T:TNE. Is it due to the system, or
> the world?
I don't mind the world _as such_ (although I consider the mechanism used
for producing the change (ie. the Virus) to be ah... slightly unlikely...),
but I bitterly resent the fact that GDW abandoned the old setting to do
the change. That means that no more support material will be produced for
the pre-Crash Imperium. I gather that GDW felt that the mass of background
material that had accumulated over the years intimidated potential new
customers, and took this way of wiping the slate almost clean. That may
be so, but I, at least, feel differently about it. By it's very nature a
multi-planet science-fiction background represent a wealth of information
that the PCs should rightfully be able to get merely by looking it up in
a reference book. I know of no Referee who can afford the time and effort
required to produce all that by himself. After 15 years I was just about
approaching having a minimum level of background information on a few
areas in Spinward Marches - much of it produced by myself, but as much
or more provided by outside sources - and now GDW has invalidated 80%
of it in one fell swoop. I now have the choice of dropping most of my
background info and follow GDW 80 years into the future (where I can
logically look forward to having them dump me again when the new
collection of background information becomes intimidating to newcomers,
ie. when I begin to get some use out of it) or of dumping GDW and keep
playing in the pas with no more outside inspiration and help. Of the two
I choose the latter, but I'm not happy to be forced to the choice.
Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
[email removed]
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"A subsector official pompously states that the
subsector armed forces have four Kinunir class
ships in service, each with enough troop strength
to put down any military operations that threathen
the peace of the Imperium."
---Adventure 1, The Kinunir