Re: [BNW] New game for me

["Ewan" <e.chilton@bcftcs.ac.uk>]

> >no but vampire told you the vampire to human raito, and the differnt
> >vampire
> >groups in the first book. and hell on earth implicity tells you the
> >population information that you need to know by discription and anlogy.
> >
>
> *nods* Yep.  And BNW gives you that basic information as well.  But the
> whole "how many checkpoints" thing is, IMO, closer to the Archon and
> Mason-Dixon wall examples that I gave.


umm well i havent seen it, what is the delta to norm raito then?


> Sure.  But BNW isn't doing that.  You're giving an example of two
> sourcebooks deliberately contradicting each other - a lesser number cited
> earlier vs. a larger number later.  That is _not_ the same thing as saying
> _your_ efforts as a Guide have been contradicted by something that came
out
> officially.

no, im just saying that since there is no information about the number of
DPs at least some if not most guides will have thier campiagne contradicted
_if_ information about the number of deltas/DP/defiants is released


> Again, such a release of material stating that there are "thousands of
DPs"
> would contradict material to date.  And that hasn't happened yet.  I think
> it's pretty clear that there are _not_ checkpoints at every corner from
the
> first three books and screen-adventure.  Any future statement would be
Matt
> contradicting himself, not releasing something official that contradicts a
> Guide's individual campaign efforts.

well i only have the first book, and i dont intened to buy the others just
yet. buying three book and a bit of cardboard just to find out a bit of
basic information like the appomiate ratio of superhumans to norms seems a
bit much to me! and Im not even convinced that that information is in these
sources. you say that there are not thousands of DPs, what? in america? in
crecent city? in a state? remeber that for every armageddon suited norm that
chases after your PCs there is a gadgetteer at its base maintianing it.

I think my main point stands

1: its important to know information about the number of DPs, ratio of delta
to norm etc to be able to run a game of BNW

2: this information is not avalible in the main rules book

conclusion: you cant run a game of BNw from the main book without making up
your own background

and my secondary point

1: the level of detail given on the background of the BNW world is
dissapointingly low


although I dont want to be all doom and gloom, as I said before I like it
but I need more details

Ewan