From: Rick Jones <albert@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu>
Subject: Re: GenCon Report (Incredibly long, thousands of spoilers)
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:41:31 GMT

> 	4) PLAY the darn game, which I never get to do.

	I totally understand.  The only Torg I play (as opposed to GM) is
Michael G's email game.  Sigh.

> [Note again:  Major MAJOR spoilers for most of the war up until this point
> and a good fraction of the war from this point onward follow.]
> 

	Mark and Andy, if you read this, I will be mad.  Consider that
you guys are going to Castle Dracula next Tuesday before reading on.

> 	August:  _When Axioms Collide_, which apparently sold out before I 
> even got to see it.

	I hope it's good. I like the Cyberpapacy, but haven't had any good
ideas for adventures. 

> 	September:  That Nippon/Orrorsh novel whose name I forget.
	"Out of Nippon"
> 	November:  Torg Character Collection
> 	December:  The Gaunt Man Returns, 96 page 'supermodule', I saw the
> cover painting at the Art Show there and was blown away.

	Don't tease us like that, what was the cover?

> 	_Berlin Rezoned_, also by John Terra.  Jez decides she wants to expand,
> lays down some stelae around Berlin and gets one yanked by Doc Mobius, leaving
> Berlin as a Tharkold/Nile mixed zone.  Nifty.

	Coolness!!!  My players are doing a mission for the German Govt, this
may be a good lead-in.

> What about the Living Land?
> 	Consider it GONE by Spring.  No kidding.  The Land Below has already

	JOY!!!! I can finally do some interesting stuff in the USA again.  
I liked the Land Below loads more than the LL. 

> There is a cure in sight for the Comaghaz plague.  Apparently the

	Great, I always thought it stunk.  I'd rather have the cure
come from my idea (various Spiritual Leaders come to the top of Machu 
Pichu, and thanks to the Law of Religious Compatability, they get a
huge crowd whipped up into enough of a frenzy of faith that Apeiros 
himself obliterates it).
	
> (Kansas Jim's name got a smattering of applause at the seminar from all of the
> Usenet folks in the audience.  You're a guru now... :) )

	And to think we knew him way back when.... ;-)

> Gutterby is dead.  The Warrior of the Dark is the new Aysle Highlord. 
	^-Who?		 ^----- YAY!!!!!

> She's tapping into Hel(g(u)ard) and bringing up shades and other nasties
> to fight for the Dark.  The Siege of Oxford is forthcoming, and Greg
> apparently has these wonderful visions of Pella Ardinay in chains in a
> dungeon someplace.  Before long expect to see all of Aysle Dark but for
> Oxford and one other adjacent zone which I didn't write down in my notes.

	Double coolness.  My players just left Aysle.  I may have to keep
them out until then, and have them fight their way back in.

> There was a generally negative response by the crowd to a player's
> question about other players' thoughts on a comicbook superhero cosm. 

	Nah!  Supers will overpower the game, unless they're very limited.
Although, we did determine our Sov Psi with effectiely 10 adds in Psi
Manipulation can, with a good roll, grab a satelite in low earth orbit,
or pull a plane out of the sky.

> The Pocket Dimensions SB will contain a Toon cosm.

	FEH!  Unless it's a Cool World Cosm (I heard the movie stunk, but
it's the best idea for a Toon cosm I hoid.)
> Don't count on another realm dropping onto CE for a Long, Long Time, as
> players have generally responded negatively to this.

	GOOD!

> The CP stelae in the Mediterranean will get activated soon, they were not
> destroyed.  Activation of stelae on Crete has brought the Greek Gods back, and
> of course, Pluto's going to eventually ally with Mobius.

	Shades of the Olympus / Asgard team ups from Marvel Comics ....

> 	Tokyo is coming *soon*.
> 	Paris was done, ready to roll, and the author's hard drive crapped
> out and Utterly Destroyed it.  No kidding.  It's being worked on.

	This is why one backs up a hard drive.  Something I plan on doing
RSN... ;-)

> 	No London one is due in the forseeable future.
	Sod London, Oxford's much more interesting. 
> 	Expect to see Orrorsh in New Orleans and maybe the Nile in
> Chicago, after the LL is removed from the field.

	However, Houston is conspiciously absent.  I may have to 
gut up and write my proposal.

> 	I'll post a review of High Lord Theater tomorrow.  I didn't take notes
> on that one.

	Well, thanks for all the info.  I'm going to have to go onto 
GEnie and do some serious gushing.
-- 
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