Re: [BNW] Rising Stars (was What is BNW like? (longish))

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

> > Also, on the whole "mystery" of BNW
> > powers...Stracynski is doing that in
> > Rising Stars too.  Doesn't seem to be hurting his
> > sales.  Several important
> > clues were dropped in this week's issue.
> >
>
>Yes, but Stracynski KNOWS the secret in his universe,
>so he can shape his stories so that there won't be
>future conflicts.
>

Sure.  But if he screws something up, and adapts the screw-up into the 
storyline down the road, will you the reader/player know it...?  Perhaps 
he's done it already and no one knows it.

>One last example of a failed attempt at this idea:
>
>Remember Marvel's New Universe?  The writers were not
>given the information behind what was going on.  Most
>of the beginning stories had aliens, extra-dimensional
>people, robots, etc.  Later when the secret was let
>out all the titles with these themes had to be changed
>to match the world view.  Most of them plummeted in
>sales after that, and then the whole universe bottomed
>out.  Did they need to release the secret at the
>beginning? No, but the writers needed that
>information.  In our case the players do not (nor have
>I ever said) need that information.  The Guides do
>need that information though.
>

So you're saying the _only_ factor (or at least the only major factor) that 
led to the New Universe's demise was it's discontinuity between early and 
later stories?  As opposed to, say, the fact that the beginning stories were 
"typical" comic book (which is kinda what you're describing above) and had 
driven away any fans who might be interested in an alternate approach such 
as was taken once the "secret" was out?  And switching styles threw off the 
old-style fans who were reading the books originally?

As a counter-example, when DC revealed in...oh, 88'?  90'? whenever 
"Invasion" came out that there was a meta-human gene that gave most folks 
their superpowers, which contradicted hordes of stories from the last 50+ 
years, DC sales have continued to hold.  So one last example of a 
_successful_ attempt at this idea.

>-Munch Wolf

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Steve Crow

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