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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Forming our own gaming system?
Message-ID: <1306@shark.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 31-Mar-85 20:44:42 EST
Article-I.D.: shark.1306
Posted: Sun Mar 31 20:44:42 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 2-Apr-85 05:07:52 EST
References: <1179@reed.UUCP> <1301@shark.UUCP> <1205@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Summary: 

[ quash that bug ]
In article <1205@reed.UUCP> greg@reed.UUCP (Greg Stein) writes:

>	As far as religious issues, I'm not sure what you mean.  This
>would be just as controversial as any FRP game (of the AD&D variety).

Well, the major religious issue I run into is deciding how complex a
model to keep.  Since back in 1977, my friend Spider and I have been
attempting to put together a system that we can stand to live with.
By dint of much hacking and patching, and shameless borrowing, we
came up with a model we can live with.  Unfortunately this model is so
detailed it causes strong men to blench, causes strong women to sneer
in disgust, causes children to whine.  On the other hand, an acquaintance
here at Tek has been playing in a TFT campaign for some years, and that
group has a very simple model.  Our system has the advantage that we
can handle subtle interactions between skills and basic abilities.  The
TFT setup is mostly FAST.  It makes one to wince at the kludginess of that
model.  If it is taken the way it is written, you start out as Herve'
Villachez (Tatoo) and end up Lou Ferrigno.  The S2 system doesn't have
that problem, but then, it takes >2hours to create a character properly.

THAT's what I meant by religious issues; people will prefer a particular
approach to modeling.  If you can mediate this type of disagreement without
losing the cooperation of one or more participants, you have what it
takes to run the aforementioned ANSI committee.

>To non-critics:
>	So far, I have received several replies from people.  Currently
>it looks like a vote for using mailing lists in keeping up information,
>rather than using the newsgroup.  I'll wait a few more days until
>I get some more replies before making a complete posting to the net.
>Meanwhile, please keep sending me some more mail, or even posting
>for a complete posting.  Please keep sending more mail, or posting
>your ideas to the net (actually, criticism is welcome, Hutch.  This
>may not be the best idea, but then again...).

I look forward to seeing you come up with something.  I suggest that before
you actually start soliciting for models, that you poll the contributors
for their preferences, and that you have an agreement ahead of time about
how you plan to resolve the inevitable disagreements.

>	Thanks again for the replies, and I'll keep you posted...
>
>			Greg Stein
>			..!tektronix!reed!greg

Good luck, and despite my initial clouds of gloom, I still wish you great
success.

Hutch