From: Alex Ferguson (abf@interzone.ucc.ie)
Date: Sun 22 Jun 1997 - 05:38:12 EEST
Pam Carlson is Righteously Annoyed at those that say:
> "I'm not gonna pay for any of the new material on Peloria, (or King of
> Sartar), but nothing is coming out in the gamestores."
I can certainly agree with this Scathing Attack in the case of KoS
refuseniks. It's positively chok-a-blok with information about
past and future DP, is a dashed good read, and is positively cheap.
Cermonially burn the Making Gods section if it upsets you, but I
don't see how anyone can pass up all the material on Orlanthi
mythology and (perhaps even more so) customs.
> GRoY, FS, And Entekosiad will each cost US$25, [...]
> but all full of great scenario ideas [...]
I can see both sides of this question, myself. (Not Illumination, just
Indecisiveness with a dash of ethnicly-stereotyped Meanness on the side.)
I personally liked all of the above, particularly the Entekosiad, but
whether they represent "value for money" or not depends on what your
expectations are. If what people want is something they can game "out
of the box", then I wouldn't rate any of them very highly in the "value
for money" stakes. For people who've been gasping for information about
Peloria, though, they're surely water in the proverbial desert. On the
third hand, if you're not a Pelaphile, and only a moderate Greg
completist, you can console yourself with the thought that the
Definitive version of the same material ought to make into a more
mass-market publication (eventually), bereft of Errors, Revisions, dodgy
FGS artwork, and at a more favourable page/punt ratio (I'd imagine say
25:1, rather than something more like 8:1). On the fourth hand, that
there millenium is hurtling nearer fast...
In vacilation,
Alex.
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