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Is there any good campaigns in which I can´t ever fly a Starship?

Started by Settembrini, August 01, 2007, 04:55:28 AM

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Dr Rotwang!

#15
August 01, 2007, 08:30:30 AM
Wow.  I now equal starships?

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#16
August 01, 2007, 08:37:14 AM
What about Qin?
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#17
August 01, 2007, 08:37:50 AM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Wow.  I now equal starships?

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Sorry, Doc, but aren't ships by default female?
 

Alnag

#18
August 01, 2007, 08:58:03 AM
Quote from: Zachary The FirstWhat about Qin?

Qinese... er sorry, Chinese fireworks might be kind of a proto-rocket. And rocket is kind of a proto-spaceship. The only problem is few hundered years difference. But who cares... :rolleyes:
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#19
August 01, 2007, 09:13:37 AM
So, all historical games are trash.

All modern day games are trash.

All fantasy games without starships are trash.

Wow! Just want to get it straight so I can burn the offending books... :O

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Settembrini

#20
August 01, 2007, 09:24:29 AM
Now, historical games do pose a certain threat to the all-encompassedness of the Rotwang-principle.

Glorantha sucks donkey balls compared to HârnWorld, that´s for sure.

Quin is not even a real game, there´s just one book (in english), so no need to take it seriously. It´s also mostly historical.


But the only real contenders are the historical games, I fear.


BUT:
How many people really play them? See, no one!
Why: No starships!
easy.
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Sosthenes

#21
August 01, 2007, 09:29:14 AM
Quote from: SettembriniBUT:
How many people really play them? See, no one!
Why: No starships!
easy.
Von Däniken would like to have a word with you.
(As do the Raelians. The Heaven's Gate people have been oddly silent, though)
 

Dr Rotwang!

#22
August 01, 2007, 09:29:20 AM
Quote from: flyingmiceSo, all historical games are trash.

All modern day games are trash.

All fantasy games without starships are trash.

Wow! Just want to get it straight so I can burn the offending books... :O

-clash
I'm pretty sure that Sett is being, er...how you say?

Fascetious?
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Settembrini

#23
August 01, 2007, 09:30:49 AM
Hah!
I think the historical games are the solution, instead of the problem:

Rotwang-principle, 2nd Edition Revised and Expanded:

If a gamewright has the option of putting starships in his setting, and does not so, the hole in this fictional universe reserved for them fills with suckage instead.


Still, most historical games would be awesome with some starfaring in them.
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J Arcane

#24
August 01, 2007, 09:59:36 AM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!I'm pretty sure that Sett is being, er...how you say?

Fascetious?
I think at this point I've lost any ability to assume such a charitable motive on his part.
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#25
August 01, 2007, 10:01:53 AM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!I'm pretty sure that Sett is being, er...how you say?

Fascetious?

Heh! I'm just playing along, Doc! This thread supplied my minimum daily requirement of silliness! :D

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#26
August 01, 2007, 10:03:00 AM
Quote from: SettembriniHah!
I think the historical games are the solution, instead of the problem:

Rotwang-principle, 2nd Edition Revised and Expanded:

If a gamewright has the option of putting starships in his setting, and does not so, the hole in this fictional universe reserved for them fills with suckage instead.


Still, most historical games would be awesome with some starfaring in them.

Ah! This is much better! Unfortunately I just burned all my historical games... :O

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Pseudoephedrine

#27
August 01, 2007, 11:59:50 AM
Counter example: Dark Sun.
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The Pernicious Light, or The Wreckers of Sword Island;
A Goblin\'s Progress, or Of Cannons and Canons;
An Oration on the Dignity of Tash, or On the Elves and Their Lies
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jrients

#28
August 01, 2007, 12:03:31 PM
Quote from: PseudoephedrineCounter example: Dark Sun.

You must have missed the halfling asteroid/spaceship.
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Pseudoephedrine

#29
August 01, 2007, 12:09:26 PM
That asteroid is part of what fucked things up for Dark Sun 2e. It's still a counter-example :P
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