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Re: [BNW] How Many Deltas in the world.. (long)
>How many Deltas are there in the world?
>
>Here's my answer:
>
>Enough.
::SNIP::
>
>Few enough.
::SNIP::
well you make some good points against the need for exact figures, however
it wasnt realy exact figures that I was asking for (although they would be a
good answer) my point is that when I picked up, read and bought the BNW main
book I was confused. what kind of world was this meant to be? in one sense
it descirbed a facist state ruthlessly oppressing its citizens and hunting
down rogue supers, but in other parts it described deltas holding down day
jobs and running around saving peoples buts. was this meant to be another
comic book superhero type game with batman + robin, spiderman and the like
routinely bummping into evil supers to fight, and mafia gangs having to
worry about being busted by superpowered cops? or was it meant to be a dark
skies/x-files/watchmen supers are few and hunted type background.
SOOO, I posted a few questions on the board, the first of which was 'how
many deltas are there meant to be?' this I thought would solve my dillema, I
expected answers like, on page 12 it talks about how few deltas there are,
or ahh yes in this other source book it says that there are loads of deltas,
and you see them on the streets all the time. Instead I got 'why do you need
to know' and 'just make it up' well I have just made it up I decided that I
would run a dark skies type game, with a heavy poilce/dp presence and only a
few definants struggling aginst the state a bit like occupied france for
example. (notice that I have just described the numbers of deltas without
using numbers) Now if I have guessed correctly I can expect further
suplements to give me usefull background material and ideas for this style
of play, but I have guessed wrong then further suplements will be useless,
as they will describe a differnt world entirely
Ewan