[This came to [email removed], looks like it was meant for
[email removed]. Watch those automatic reply headers! -- James]
PBM? Well....
I'm thinking it over. I normally avoid PBM like the plague, but with this
bunch it might be worth trying.
As for what sort of adventure: A repo scenario might not be bad, and it
would certainly be easy enough to get a starmerc story going, too. I, on
the other hand, enjoy high finance, car chases, and the occasional "whit
whit whit" of a subsonic Gauss pistol from a dark alley. Heh. lots of serious
headscratching and mystery solving is also a nice touch; kneejerk reactions
involving nuclear weapons have their place, but there are more subtle ways of
dealing with one's troubles.
Where would it take place, and when? The Solomani Rim as the Rebellion really
gets cooking (1118 or so) is where my own campaign is currently situated, but
I suppose the Marches are the best known area for most....
[Oh, by the way, folx: I'm not back from Tenessee, nor will I be for a couple
more weeks. I've just discovered remote logins. Yippee!]
Back amongst ye,
Thy historian of all things Travellerish,
metlay
PS: What I do NOT like is even easier to sketch out: Overpowered parties
(overpwered villains are fine). People running aliens who act out of character
("well, he's a K'Kree warrior with a STR of 25 and he likes to be left alone
and eat hamburgers. What's wrong with that?"). And, my most pet peeve of all,
the one thing I have never seen run or played well in this game: Psionics
(Take your pick: either "Oh, he can't sneak up on me, I'm reading his mind" or
"You mean this guy I've been running with for a game year is a psi? Geez, I
really feel bad about this, but I blow him away when his back's turned.").
Sigh...
PPS. I haven't much to add on the insurance question, other than to point
out that people had better come up with a more forgiving scenario for the
finance and underwriting of starships, even before Doolie wasted Stref with a
quick one to the ole cardiac, or I can easily demonstrate that it would be
economically impossible for anyone other than a planetary or larger government
to own or operate a starship, period. I would like to answer the other
question posed in the original posting, though: since the Archdukedom carries
with it no additional enfiefment, and the fact that the Archduchy of Deneb has
not had an Archduke for centuries (neither did the others, until Stref brought
them back, but he never named an Archduke for Deneb), I find it highly
unlikely that Norris would relocate himself to Deneb upon ascending to
the Archdukedom. When he's not travelling about his domain, putting out
brushfire wars and screaming at the Lakht Aorlakht, he's almost certainly at
home sweet home on Regina, or on his ancillary lands in Yori.
PPPS. There may be another chapter in the story of Grant and CO. in the works,
but we'll have to see....
anyway, it's nice to be back.
ciao!
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