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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Runequest 3 review, Chapter 1
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Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 18:34:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 24 18:34:38 1984
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Summary: 

Thanks for a review that seems to prove something else altogether:
If you make a really intricate, detailed, complex, fantasy game in
order to attempt to imitiate reality, you will probably develop a
hopeless muddle full of unrealistic bugs.  So why bother???

In Lewis Carroll's late book, "Syvlie and Bruno", one of the characters
has a really detailed map of the local area.  It is made on a scale of
(are you ready?): ONE TO ONE.  There is some nice humor regarding
the difficulty of using the map.  BUT,

In a complex FRP system, it's easy to start taking hours to play
minutes of "reality";  then we catch up by taking seconds to play
days of reality;  then we...
at some point I actuality prefer reality itself.


	- Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
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