From: Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim) <jogle@aoc.nrao.edu>
Subject: Re: GenCon Report (Incredibly long, thousands of spoilers)
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:26:44 GMT

Clinton writes:

> >New Good Guy:
> >	Something to do with the 5 Realms game.  Email me privately for more,
> >I promised not to blab.
> >
>        Argh! The Five Realms is such an idiotic idea! Torg within Torg within
> Torg within.... bleah! Thumbs down...

Then you probably don't want to email Jim K. about the information he
promised not to blab....  I did and, well, lets just say it sounds
really bad.

>>Jezrael novel in the works.  Jez apparently will start to have an affair with
> >Someone Important in the wars soon.  I don't know who.
> >
>  Well, we missed two (maybe three) possibilities...
> 
> 1. Thratchen (ooh! How techno-horrific!)

Hey, Thratchen's already been in the sack with a Horror in Orrorsh,
why not with a monkey woman?  And Jez thinks of herself as a Tharkoldu
anyway....

> 2. Whoever becomes the LB high lord (Damo Kil or Hadian Fel Ar, probably...)

If there is one.

> or... 
> 
> 3. The Gaunt Man himself!!!! :) (hey! who says the old geezer doesn't still
> have what it takes! ;)
> 
>    Of course, Jez and GM making out is not something I'd want to know about,
> much less witness! (think of Ferocity, Pain, Domination, Fear, and Corruption
> being used in... oh never mind. God I'm a sick puppy...)

You and me both!  Of course, you know that WEG would wimp out on their
relationship and not portray it as such....

>Could someone post the stats for the DD's that I don't have (I'm not an Iverse
> subscriber...) . I'm missing Kefertiri and Rec Pakken...

Those two are in the Infiniverse Update so go out and buy it already!
Sheesh!  8-)

>          On an unrelated note, I'm going to be starting up a campaign this
> Saturday, starting about a month into the war, using the Destiny Map adven-
> ture as the beginning (ancient history, eh?) ...
>          So there's two things I wanna know...
>          The Nippon tech oilrig in volume two (the Possibility Chalice) seems
> to be within Orrorsh stelae boundaries... but is it in Dominant Core Earth,
> or Mixed Orrorsh/CE?

Well, as near as I can tell on my map of the area I would say that it
all depends on where you want to put it.  The Isthmus of Kra is right
at the junction between the mixed and CE Dominant zones so if you put
everything at the north end of the isthmus it is the Mixed zone and if
you put it at the south end it is CE Dominant.

You could also say that since it is taking place early on in the
timeline that Orrorsh just hasn't expanded that far and not worry
about it (which is how I ended up doing it when I realized after the
module that they were in what the Worldbook showed to be a CE Dominant
Orrorsh zone).

>         Also, I never bought the SK guide (kick! kick!)... could someone post
> a summary of the optional rules contained within (or e-mail me)... if it 
> would take too long, don't bother... just a request...

Character creation there's too much to summarize but you also probably
don't need most of it if you've got much experience with gaming.
There are a couple of new skills (nothing earth-shattering though) and
rules for unskilled use of those skills you can't use unskilled
(basically there's a table with penalties to use).  They expand on a
lot of rules but there aren't that many new optional ones.  Maybe you
are thinking of the Infiniverse Update?

Kansas Jim (jogle@aoc.nrao.edu)
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