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Re: Starship Bible (was: Types of Sectors)
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Tue, 6 May 2003 13:23:31 GMT
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In lugnet.gaming.starship, Richard Parsons writes:
> In Reply to: Types of Sectors
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> I can see how freeform might work in an existing, detailed and jointly
> understood setting (ie rpg-ing in the Star Trek universe, or the Star Wars
> universe) where all the participants are subscribed to a large body of
> published material on what is possible and what is acceptable, but here in
> Starship, we have no such bible. Not having a bible as such confers benefits
> in terms of encountering many new ways to think about things. It als confers
> the limitation that we cannot assume that we all have the same basic
> understanding of what is possible and what is likely to happen in any given
> situation, so we need for the SMs to take that responsibility.
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> Or not, obviously ;-)
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> And its very nice to be here on Lugnet!
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> Richard
> Still baldly going...
Yes, it is nice to be on good ol' Lugnet!
And why don't we have a "bible"? The SMs have to put together their sectors
from nothing, so there is certainly no lack of imagination in this group!
Some sort of Galactic Encyclopedia is in order. It could help describe
cultures, governments, resources, technologies, etc. etc. I volunteer to
lead this effort if I can have a few voluneer assistants ;-)
Here's how I think it would go:
We start with the sectors page and go down the list. Develop a format for
describing culture, gov't, etc. Once we have this down pat, all we have to
do is use our imaginations to fill out the descriptions of places. We would
get all our information directly from the SM, and the SM would need to
approve it before it is published. Then we move on to the empty sectors,
JumpGates, the Galactic Core, and all that. I'm sure Hendo can provide us
with some "info" on those things.
So howsabout it?
~Andrew~
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Starship Bible (was: Types of Sectors)
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| (...) Yup. :) Already, it would have been easy to miss Richard's post to this thread (buried deeply on the other board), but here it is easy to notice. ...I am just waking up, so I may reply more to this later... A few initial thoughts: (...) I (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
| | | Re: Starship Bible
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| (...) Hmmmmm. I'd be a little hesitant about this. It presents quite a barrier to new SMs to have to flesh all this sort of detail out in advance if the SMs have to do it themselves, and it seems to me if a player was up for doing this sort of (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Types of Sectors (Long post)
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| In Reply to: Types of Sectors posted by Galactic Mediator Hendo on May 05, 2003 at 13:34:16 (...) I'm not sure that this analysis really maps the dimensions of the differences. Specifically, I don't think that "Trade and Social Gameplay" indicates (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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