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Bundle: 558
Archive-Message-Number: 7012
From: kspangler[-- REDACTED --]
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 16:19:44 EST
Subject: TNE:VIEWS

{Even
if, ultimately, the idea of `good' viral mutations is just another
gimmick like Ancients technology - and not much of a basis for an entire
campaign.}
I am putting together a compaign, based on the above info paragraph.
The setting is equivalent to Buck Rogers in the 24th Century. Where various
virus strains have formed a culture with humans in order to survive the
upcoming incursions from Vampire Fleets, and Virus paranoid Star Vikings. The
reasons the virus needs humans is a very intelligent and adaptable
tool.(don't have to worry about cross infection from roaming virus entities.)
The humans have very low population and resource poor planets.(both are
facing a multitude of predatory races)
{But I'm a consumer and
I've got my own interests - *and I'd like to buy some new Traveller
products*!  But I'm not going to buy anything they throw at me and so
far this is all TNE seems.  Is there anyone out there who would buy TNE
*for the background* (not the rules) if some sort of comparably priced
`Frontier Sourcebook' was on the shelf next to it?  If so, tell us why.
And if you wouldn't buy TNE over this `Sourcebook' but you bought
it because that's all there is, do you drive a Yugo?  :-)}
My opinions on the above comments..
1) you don't have to buy it.
2)Yes, I bought TNE because of the background.If they had another frontier
source book right next to it. I still would buy it; because when I run a game
I want the basic Background and rules in one book.
3) Are you suggesting that anyone driving yugo is consider mentally
incompetant? Or anyone who bought TNE ignorant...
4) You opened this current line by asking our respective views on either
aspect of traveller.Nothing wrong with expressing one's own opinion. But to
tear apart each opinion that comes in, That is not so polite.
 To the rest of this mailing and the above author I apologize for this long
post. 

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