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From: thornton@kcl-cs.UUCP (ZNAC468)
Newsgroups: net.startrek,net.games
Subject: Re: Startrek Adventure Game
Message-ID: <639@neon.kcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 06:46:31 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 06:46:31 1986
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Reply-To: thornton@kcl-cs.UUCP (Andy T)
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In article <354@isis.UUCP> jay@isis.UUCP writes:
>
>	Being new to the net, I'm not sure that this type of thing
>doesn't already exist, but how about someone writing a game of startrek
>similar to 'adventure'?  The klingons and starbases get old after a few
>hours, no matter how many times you win or lose.  Why not create
>something that launches the old bird into the unknown, where it
>encounters planets with wonderful finds or extracts terrible penalties.
>	How about it - is this possible???
>Jay Batson

	"The word 'Impossible' is found only in the dictionaries of fools and
people with spelling problems."

	At a recent convention Diane Duane demonstrated an I.B.M. pc game
based on star trek which looked (at least through a large crowd in a dark room)
quite good. This seems to involve a certain amount of 'Where No Man..'.
	Alternatively the Star Trek R.P.G. could be adapted for this if your
G.M. has a certain minimum level of creativity! The existing scenarios are o.k.
but lead players on a lot.(The DD Machine with N.P.C. carved in the neutronium).
	A good shoot em up game is Star Fleet Battles which occasionally
introduces new races on the condition that they are militaristic. This is a
completely different game type though (the rules are over complicated!).
	The idea of a net devised game is (I hope) viable.
	The best I can think of is a mixture of the previous two games which
could be done (hoo.hum.IDIC again.). Anyone else got ideas on this subject?
					Andy T.
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