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From: rld@pyuxnn.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: role-playing in frp games
Message-ID: <122@pyuxnn.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Sep-83 11:16:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 26 11:16:52 1983
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I agree with rene's comments about SF frps.
I tried to run a Traveller game about a year ago, but it died out.
Now I also work at ajob, and maybe I'm not imaginative enough to be a GM,
but I rely on published materiels to provide 90% of the details of an adventure
and embellish with 10% of my own.  I found the Traveller materiel insufficient
to create an injteresting world from. ["Shadows" was sufficient, "Kinunir" was
wholly insuffucient, others seemed to be repetition of the
wander-around-the-inside-of-an-abandoned-spaceship theme.]

And the lack of an experience-system in Traveller dissapointed me; I always
viewed self-improvement as the primary motivation.  AS for getting rich,
I could'nt see justification for leaving treasure chests of gold lying around
a space station.

This year I am running a Star Frontiers game.  I find it much more satisfying.
I can "get into" the scenarios and imagine motivations for the characters
and events much more easily.  The adventures provide more detailed
events/monsters and stimulate me to embellish more.  The rules seem to be less
detailed-for-detail's-sake. (I wouldn't ever claim they were perfect;
it has been pointed out to me that the scales are sometimes unREAListic.)

I would like to see more discussion and comparison on the net, hopefully from
people more experienced/productive than I.
[I dont play D&D.]

>>>>> Bob Duncanson, AT&T Bell Laboratories, eagle!pyuxnn!rld <<<<<