Hmmm, you have had waaaaaay too much caffeine today. Way too much.
R. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] Uhm...joke or not? (Holistic, please respond) > In a message dated 1/16/02 12:52:32 PM Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << This is almost as bad tasting as the Alf telethon I was forced to watch > last > month. >> > > Why? Why is this product any worse than, say, GURPS WWII, which allows > players to roleplay soldiers fighting against the Nazis, or worse than RECON, > which allows players to roleplay soldiers fighting against the North > Vietnamese or Viet Cong, or Dungeons & Dragons, which allows players to > roleplay adventurers fighting against the evil orc hordes, or Sengoku, which > allows players to roleplay samurai fighting against the enemy samurai clans, > or Traveller, which allows players to roleplay adventurers fighting against > the "evil alien empires," or any other product with a similar premise? > > Oh, the terrorism thing is too close to home, some might say. Well, is it > closer to home than the above products? Where do you draw the line of what > tastes "bad" and what tastes "good?" It's not as if they announced "World > Trade Center: d20" where players roleplay a rescue worker or (Heaven forbid) > a victim. > > Mark Arsenault > > President, Gold Rush Games | http://www.goldrushgames.com > Executive Director, Game Publishers Association | http://www.thegpa.org > ------------------------------------------------------- > Action! System Beta rules! - http://www.action-system.com > _______________________________________________ > Ogf-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l > _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
