From: Carl Fink (carlf@panix.com)
Date: Sat 22 Jun 1996 - 03:27:16 EEST
Sandy Petersen <sandyp@idgecko.idsoftware.com>:
[me]
>>I'll add that by the time of the Second Age's ending, very few
>real "God >Learners" were still around.
> I don't know where you get this idea from, Carl. There were
>more God Learners just before the cataclysms began than at any
>other time in the history of their empire.
I believe this is what is technically known as "being wrong". I took
it from the fact, as you attest in the same Digest, that the
Six-Leggers and False Dragon Ring were no longer God Learners, thus
the God Learners proper ruled a smaller area.
[Jeff]
>>Ultimately, IMO, the GLers were a failure
> In the same way that the Roman Empire was a failure? Or the
>dinosaurs?
You and I are biologists, Sandy. Most people still do think of the
I hate when you do that.
dinosaurs as slow, stupid, doomed creatures.
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