From: v057qkmm@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Bluerazor)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.advocacy,rec.games.frp,rec.games.frp.misc
Subject: Let's talk REAL sci-Fi systems
Keywords: The best
Date: 10 Sep 92 00:26:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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	Ok, I'm going to objectively compare Battlelords to those OTHER 
so-called Sci-fi game systems out there. So listen up gamers, and flame
away!! I'm going to be brutally honest.

	Battlelords has twelve of the COOLEST races you'd ever want to play,
and they are all original, not based on some hokey elven lore!!!! I don't
know about you, but I'd rather play my first level Mutzachan any day than
some "elven decker" or "Ork". Leave the elves to D&D, I want ALIENS!

	Battlelords has the best combat system of any Sci-Fi system on the
market, bar none. I have fifty dollars that says so. No other system 
simulates discharge combat so realistically. Its quick, efficient, and 
deadly. It's not like some systems where you roll 30d6 and fail to do any
damage. What kind of system is that, Yahtzee?? And theres none of these 
"wound levels" either. Get hit by any heavy weapons in Battlelords and
 you're likely to be looking at a mangled limb or some internal organs
 being reduced to jelly! Imagine the look on your enemy's face as
 your plasma cannon removes his groin!!!!

	Battlelords now has the LARGEST, most complete equipment manual
ever compiled, Lock 'N Load. It has over 2000 pieces of equipment, fully
described, and is 160 pages long!! Other systems are missing the basics of
life, like radios and beer.  Battlelords has everything, even tomb stones
to mark your shallow grave on an alien hunk of rock!!!

	Battlelords doesn't have "spells" or "magic" or "mana". Sure, you
can play characters with psychic powers who can generate matrices... but
you wont be turning anyone to goo by rolling d6s. Leave mages out with
that hokey elven lore.

	You like some other system? 
		Rifts - Haven't looked over this, but if its anything
	like Palladium's other stuff with SDC and MDC, I don't want to
	have anything to do with it.
		GURPS - Get real. Want to play a generic system which 
	requires you to buy an infinite supply of supplements? I like 
	my games specific.
		Chart master?
		Sure, there's plenty of systems out there you COULD play.
But why waste your time with inaccurate or incomplete systems? For sheer
combat efficiency and overall playability, you just cant do any better.
Yeah, you might point out some mistakes or omissions from the basic rulebook.
Too vague, too unorganized... whatever. These problems are being fixed.
	No space combat system? Of course not - its still under development 
because when its released it will be the BEST. Can't fit it into a 250-page
rulebook which already explains the basics.

	And Battlelords has only improved since Lock N Load was released:
more historical development, the final compilation of weapons and equipment
(all you'll ever need), and a section on tactics. Coming soon: Modules,
and the COMPLETE race book - explaining how the races live and work together
in the Alliance, plus new exciting races to play, and for NPCs!!


	So go ahead, try toget that fifty bucks. Show Me a better combat
system. Oh and by the way it has to be a published game. 


Flame away.

	Bluerazor the Mutzachan
	U the Ram Python
	"Wad" the orion Rogue (currently imprisoned)

	PS dont gimme any of that hokey elven lore. 
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