Re: Re : New Life for Millennium's End

[CamaroGen1@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 4/5/01 12:14:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
virtualpender@hotmail.com writes:


> Reading all of these discussions about what the ME rules should become is 
> somewhat troubling to me.  The majority of the ideas seem intended to make 
> the game into a very playable killfest that would be identical to T2K, 
> Gurps, or whatever.  The allure (to me, at least) is the realism afforded 
> by 
> the system.  To try and get rid of the templates and the damage table would 
> be to make it into another generic game that would get lost among the 
> offerings already out there.
>
> The other trend about this discussion that seems incongruous to me is that 
> everyone wants to make the game simpler but everyone wants to add five or 
> ten new rules to cover pedantic little details that would rarely come up in 
> play.  IMHO our energies could be more productively utilized in trying to 
> "tweak" what is already out there.  Thoughts?  Flames?
>
> Ryan
> _______________________________


       I think you hit the nail on the head....tweak the skill points (Rob T. 
has a great system) and a few minor details.......that's it, don;t rewrite 
the whol;e rulebook

Benjamin