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Bundle: 555
Archive-Message-Number: 6985
From: muskrat[-- REDACTED --]
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 00:24:29 EST
Subject: Submission

Quote:

Gentlesophonts:

Are there any folks out there who are more interested in campaign
background rather than rules and such?  TML discussions of late seem to
be overwhelmed with questions and debates over what are, IMHO, minutia.

Is there anyone else who thinks
discussions about weapon penetration, craft design, and planetary
science is a little moot in a two-dimensional universe?

Endquote.

    YES! While I loved CT's rules, and find T:TNE workable, it's the
background that's drawn me over the years. I guess I just get lost in hi-tech
discussions of the physics of systems that defy the laws of physics as we
know them. Most of the time, they really don't even affect the game that
much.
    For my 2 crs worth, I loved CT's background, but never really saw why the
Imperium's grasp on its world was so tenuous as to allow for interstellar
mini-wars. I think the new setting works much better as an area for
adventurer exploration....though I'd love to see more info from the Spinward
Marches. Call me a romantic, but I miss the old Empire. I still think of the
Zhodani as the ultimate enemy. 
    And while I can accept two-dimensionality on the Imperial maps, 2-D
Brilliant Lances seems rather more silly at times.

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