Re: [DL] Crossovers

["Ronald Conner" <marshalron@hotmail.com>]

>I'm not certain, but I think that I just disagreed with you on this Ron.
>

No you esentially agreed with me.  The gurps rules are huge unwieldly and 
have the single purpose of letting people argue over what rules to use for a 
given situation when a more simple and direct option exists.

I'm not saying the book shouldn't be made at all I just question the real 
use to which the book will be put.

I'm all for getting new people in the game.  I'm all for doing crossovers.  
I've been submitting magic:the gathering ccg crossover ideas for a while 
now.  (no one listens)

I just have to vent that gurps grognards have the most redicilous method of 
playtesting rules that I have ever seen.  What is the point of intorduceing 
a completely different mode of thought and game play into a system that 
makes everything vanillia.

Case in point I was just drawing up a character for an HOE game I plan on 
never running. *g*  I had to do a total of 20- 25 card pulls for one 
character and didn't have to roll one die.  That of course doesn't count the 
number of pulls I discarded because they had 4 2's.  But when you translate 
that into dice you lose something.  Espically with mutations.  3d6 just 
doesn't have the same flavor as the queen of hearts when you realize that 
hearts is the suit of famine.  I'm sure the number 17 has some significance 
but really.

Rant, Rant Rant.

Going to take part of this back to the playtest and see what floats to the 
surface.

Ron Conner
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