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On Fri, 10/23/15, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:
Subject: Re: [TML] High Guard missile bay launch
To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Date: Friday, October 23, 2015, 2:58 PM
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> On
Oct 23, 2015, at 11:37 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list)
<xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
wrote:
>
> I think
this illustrates a common problem for any sci-fi rpg.
> So much of it has to be 'made-up'
that the more 'pseudo'-detailed it gets, the easier
it is to see the flaws.
> As Trav became
more & more detailed, not only was more errata required
(re:MT), but I actually found it to be less & less
appealing
> I finally fell back to CT,
where, like StarWars, all the cool stuff, "just
worked", & one could play w/o worrying about
why.
Well, given that the
example I posted was from CT, it’s kind of clear it
doesn’t ‘just work’ save with ‘because this is what
the rules say’.
Perfectly
acceptable for playing a game, just don’t try to reconcile
it with reality :-)
Also
giving PC’s a box full of 60,000 km-range radar and
mass-guided sidewinder missiles isn’t bad, but only in
comparison to giving them nukes :-P
Well, yeah, but judicious use of 'Clarke's Law' is always needed to make Trav (& just about all the sci-fi rpg's I've known) work, still, in the end, "The play's the thing", right? And, in my experience, all the jiggery-pokery that was intended to make it all "more realistic" just created a lot more 'unrealism' &, worst of all, made the game more complicated & thus harder to play.
"giving them nukes" is a very good example of good intentions (trying for more realism) backfiring, IMO.
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