Re: [BNW] Defiants

[Sean Michael Whipkey <highway@cstone.net>]

"Stith, John" wrote:
> 
> But... it's been my take on things that most of this game is politics to a
> large degree. Politics is the science of managing people and resources. That
> is what this is very much about. The political scene very much determines
> how deltas will operate, where, when, etc. I think maybe the soliloquy was a
> little long, but... it set up many other items for the game. I will be
> interested to see where this all leads though.

That's a good point.  The politics of the background are very important
to the game as a whole.

However, I hate to see what could be used as game material space taken
up instead by monologues that re-iterate what's already been stated
before.  More importantly, I don't like being told how you're supposed
to feel.  I'm a big boy.  I can have my own opinions.  I don't need to
be told what to think.

It was one of the things that I didn't like, particularly, about
Defiants.  I felt like you were flat-out told "Delta Warriors are bad,
Pax Delta is useless, Isla Delta is running away, and if you play any of
those types you're not playing correctly".  I emphasize that I *felt*
like it said that, even though it never specifically said it.

I have groups that would love to play a group of Delta Warriors.  They'd
enjoy the angst of having to deal with reg casualties and the chance to
use big boom-booms.  Others would love to be on Isla Delta, ferreting
out spies, occasionally going around the world with Team Freedom.

Then again, it's probably just me.  I'm a libertarian, and the only
thing I hate more then the government telling me what I should do is
having someone else try to tell me how I should think about the
government. :-)

SeanMike

PS (slightly OT): I saw "3 Kings" last night, and the whole time I kept
seeing Clooney as Patriot.  Dunno why...

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