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(Quote) I agree. It is a common problem translating book plots into game terms. Authors are not herding cats, and thus can ignore their cries of woe... :D P.S. I hate railroading as much as my players do, if not more...
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For me as a reader it was ugly and raw. Maybe he felt like that was enough? I don't know. I did.
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Nerds are capable of utterly amazing things...
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I don't think anyone WANTED to mention it. A very ugly incident...
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Whup! I was probably working on them when you posted this!
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Didn't bother me either. Gaia is a closed system with an air circulation mechanism. Varley went into a great deal of detail in discussing how Gaia works aside from whatever the hell those cables a remade from to withstand that stress... Check out th…
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Actually April apparently did not become pregnant. I always wondered why... possibly because she was no longer human, and therefore Gaia did not want a hybrid Titan/Angel?
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(Quote) Ha! Yes! Niven was great about stuff like that!
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(Quote) I wasn't trying to say this was common, but it obviously does exist in some cases.
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Here is an example from Magazine 4, an article called A Look At Scan. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XpxNO_9Hn9GAx6AwjNXXt5yJD7okYsot/view?usp=sharing You can see that we go into great detail when we design components of the setting because we a…
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(Quote) No - I always work out the details of my game settings so I understand how everything works, then abstract it in-game. GMs and players don't need this information to play the game, so we don't put it in. We publish a lot of this stuff in our…
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Joining small pieces into larger wholes is known as scarfing IIRC. The British used this technique to make masts for their sailing ships when they lost access to American forests. My dad used this scarfing technique - basically fitting pieces togeth…
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(Quote) Huh! Who would have thought of that? :D
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(Quote) That was Volant, the post magical apocalypse game with actual floating islands where people rode giant birds and bats. I was talking about Sweet Chariot, which is very much a SF game, as the planet is in a system with other settled, high tec…
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I once wrote a game where the setting featured steam powered airships and 'sort of' islands. It was set on a planet where the atmosphere contained a lot of argon and the settlers who landed there in improvised gliders could only live on the mountai…
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Reading the above I remember these thoughts when I was reading, but I had forgotten about them by the time I wrote my impressions at the top. I agree with your assessment here, @Apocryphal - Yes, I can see how all these things could exist, but not a…
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(Quote) :D
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(Quote) It's not. Both of the games I am running games are using the setting for one of my games, one of which is using the full game, and the D&D game (currently in hiatus) is being run by my son, a co-author of that game, and he has adapted it…
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I am currently running two separate games in a zero gee air filled setting, and just (a week ago) stopped playing in a D&D game set in a zero gee air filled setting. So yeah! I personally am tired of save the world story lines for the nonce, so …
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Autocratic religious buttholes seem to be all over the place here. And I live in Massachusetts!
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I don't know. They seem pretty much like autocratic religious buttholes to me. I don't like them already.
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It all made sense. It was nice and scientifically taut. It's like a sort of steampunk/dieselpunk riff on Niven's Smoke Ring, which is very familiar to me, being the basis of one of my games. Humans adapted to zero gee the way astronauts adapt if the…
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Hands down Venera. Cool monster that she is!
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I did pick up book 2 in the omnibus volume and will be reading it in the future. If I like that as well as I liked this one, I will get more.
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I didn't read book two - I had a couple other books I wanted to read first.
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By Valentine's day I was halfway done... except I forgot there were 2 books in the Kindle edition, and that meant I had finished the first story... unexpectedly...
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Bingo
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I still have my SFBC hardback, so I didn't think to check...
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(Quote) Got it!