From: gdavis@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Grant R. Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.games.torg
Subject: Re:  GenCon Report (Incredibly long, thousands of spoilers)
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:36:33 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <gatemail1.0b23818222118928@morticia> jogle@aoc.nrao.edu (Ks. Jim) writes:

>I really, really hope that the pocket realms are not going to be
>erupting into the CE cosm like the Land Below is - a RIFTS ripoff is
>not what I want to see happening.

I don't know much about RIFTS, but now that you mention it, that *is* what it
sounds like. Maybe someone should drop WEG a line, just to make sure they're
aware of it.

>The Comaghaz is something else I have yet to use in my game...

The Space Gods is something most people have yet to use in their game:-),
except for gravitic rays, of course.

>>(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... :) )
>
>Aw, shucks.  8-)
>
>BTW, who brought up my name?  Did Greg actually mention "Kansas Jim's
>Thratchen rewrite" or did someone in the audience use my name?  (And
>how many Usenet people were there?)

It was I. Greg said 'someone on GEnie sent in a rewrite on Thratchen' and 
I asked 'Kansas Jim?' Suddenly, murmurs of recognition rose from the crowd.
Then Jim of Mike Yacht asked who was on alt.games.torg, and I think maybe
a half-dozen or a dozen people raised their hands. I wouldn't exactly call it
applause, but your guruness is for sure.

>> Gutterby is dead.  The Warrior of the Dark is the new Aysle Highlord. 
>
>Any mention of how/where/when/why Gutterby died?

Something about his head being stuck on a pike. Personally, I'm still waiting
for Ace Decker to return. You know how it goes; he spends a possibility and
a Hero card to buy off 6 wounds, then some elderly old woman finds him 
and nurses him back to health in her gingerbread house. Maybe he lost his
memory, too :->:->

>So why are they bothering with this Kurst lieutenant finding the Aztec
>Darkness Device if it isn't coming to Earth?

I'm not sure the *Aztec* empire is returning; it might be Kantovia's axioms
instead.

>> Will there be any CE *victories* in the near future?

Is it true that in order to pull up a stelae in I-verse, you have to be
responding to a dispatch? Can you just mail in and say 'we pulled up so-and-so
stelae'? Of course, you may have a hard time describing where the stelae is
since the coordinates are so messed up.

>One wonders where the men and equipment are coming from to fight the
>Nile, since Mobius had to have toasted most of the Saudi forces when
>he took Mecca. 

Just one of those things that make you go Hmmmm...

>There was a rumor several months ago that WEG got the licensing rights
>to Star Trek, though I don't know if you'd call it space opera or not.

rumor control: The new game is called Shatterzone, and it's more realistic
rather than space opera.

>> Psionics and Tharkold?
>> 	The Tharkold SB came in *way* too long, and psionics was the thing
>> they cut.  Assume that Tharkoldu psionicists exist, but sort of in a
>> cult-type thing...
>
>No, assume that the one sentence in the SG sourcebook is a typo and
>that there are no psionics in Tharkold (it is much easier than working
>up the details on a cult).

Don't worry, there's no cult; Greg said that the cult was one of their ideas, 
but it didn't get developed.

>> 	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.
>
>That'll teach him not to back up his drive.

Her, actually.

The Grant Man
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