Re: [BNW] white House Snuffer Fields

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

> >  I won't ever play a game that is not supported. One book and out, and I
> >  won't even buy it. This game was obviously going to be well supported 
>with
> >  supplements. However, I find myself stuck with making house rules that
>could
> >  negate any future support besides my own little mind. In effect 
>CREATING a
> >  one shot and out, no support game.
>
>I don't really see how a house rule can null and void a future
>supplement.....you take what you like and leave out what you don't, it's 
>that
>simple.  Why does everything have to be uniform and neat?  I've been 
>reading
>comic books since I was 8 years old and never really wondered "where do
>powers come from?", I just enjoyed the stories and that's what I intend to 
>do
>with my BNW game,.....enjoy the story.  I'm making a lot of house rules 
>(such
>as Vampires not being deltas and hence not affected by null fields or
>snuffers, introducing Betas, which get two power packages, and not having
>near death experiences being the only way to get powers...), now when 
>another
>supplement comes out to contridict any house rule I make I can just say 
>that
>things don't work the same way for all people, Deltas, Betas, or even 
>Alphas.
>
>

Congratulations, Mark!  You've just summed up in a couple of paragraphs what 
it took me a fairly long missive to do.  :)

(And probably William's next question will be if Vampores are affected by 
Null-fields anyway...)

Meta-RPGs do this kind of thing all the time, and often at much worse 
levels.  Geez, that whole Torg/Orrorsh thing gave me major headaches at the 
time - the Fear rules were unique enough that it probably messed up anything 
any GM had done.  But nobody around then that I know of _complained_ about 
having to make the change.  I didn't complain about it - other Torg GMs 
didn't complain about it, my players didn't complain about it, other players 
didn't complain about it.

And while it may not be familiar to all, the Torg/Orrorsh thing is probably 
the best possible analogy I can make to the current complaints about what a 
Gadgeteer sourcebook, or even the revelation of the whole Delta-power 
"mystery", may do to a campaign down the road.

Unless you're a GM obsessed with this kind of thing, or your players are 
real bastards, it's JUST NOT AN ISSUE.  And if someone does worry about this 
kind of thing, BNW (or Vampire, or Deadlands, or the upcoming Torg 2nd 
edition re-release) are probably not games for them anyway.

>Mark Means


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Steve Crow

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