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| (...) If you ever want to make a die-hard grognard cry, mention the Sad Fate of the Late, Great, Avalon Hill Games Company. It's pathetic what happened--they were acquired by Hasbro Interactive, which basically sits on all the great intellectual (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Hi everybody, Well, it's a dark day for lovers of tongue-in-cheek fiction: (URL) Douglas Adams, humorist, dead at 49. :( I may just have to build some Vogon-themed .space creations in his memory. Anyone else have my fond memories of Hitchhiker, or (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.space) !!
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| (...) Oh no, the learning curve is extremely steep with GURPS - you have to be familiar with a lot to design a character. With D&D just roll a few dice, and maybe read the first level spells. The rest you can learn as you go along. I could get (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | Re: The Gygax Legacy (was: mech legality)
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| (...) Yeah, GURPS is different. I think it's partly because the source material is so ... generic ... the writing is umm, maybe 'bland' is the word I'm looking for? Anyway, I also think it's because it's very easy to modify GURPS into a different (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Really? I always thought GURPS was simpler to learn and use, because the overall structure was simpler. Everything is right there on the character sheet, so even if you don't know all the possibilities, you can still play a character pretty (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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