From: UAS Lab User [jskln1@uas.alaska.edu] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 4:12 PM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Re: Yahoo! Clubs Prosperity Station Ankfix@aol.com wrote: > I'm sure most of you have now heard about the big news regarding Blue > Planet and Fantasy Flight Games. If you have not, I've posted a copy > of the press release on the boards. This coming Wednesday, Jan. 19, > Jeff Barber and possibly Greg Benage will be in the chat room to > answer any questions. Feel free to join us (and offer the Biohazard > dudes a well deserved Congratulations! :-) What time (and time zone)? *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Christopher Gribbon [c.gribbon@dundee.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 4:12 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - The Big News >Usually it's because the designer wants a different probability curve, >or wants a dice mechanic that is more "exciting" than a straight >percentile convention. Take Storyteller for example: it's not very >intuitive, and it's even statistically broken to some extent. But it's >still very popular, likely because many gamers enjoy rolling fistfulls >of d10s. ;-) I actually happen to think that Storyteller *is* rather intuitive; especially the "die pool splitting" to do multiple actions. It's not perfect, but then no system ever is. (Except, of course, the new BP system. THAT'll be perfect, I'm certain!) >I think it creates more accurate "character portraits." You >can design a character with excellent technical aptitude without being >a genius. You can design a street urchin with great artistic aptitude >but no formal training in the arts. You can design a scientist who is >a leader in his field, but wouldn't necessarily make a great >philosopher or historian. Sounds great. I must say, I can't wait 'til the new edition's out so I can grab a copy. Brilliant news! Christopher Gribbon Vision Research Laboratories Medical Sciences Institute University of Dundee Dundee DD1 5EH UK (01382) 344 229 ____________________________________________________________________ "A scientist is meant to be disinterested, pure; his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio!" - WILL SELF, The Quantity Theory of Insanity *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Ankfix@aol.com Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 1:29 PM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Re: Yahoo! Clubs Prosperity Station In a message dated 1/17/00 2:14:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, jskln1@uas.alaska.edu writes: << > I'm sure most of you have now heard about the big news regarding Blue > Planet and Fantasy Flight Games. If you have not, I've posted a copy > of the press release on the boards. This coming Wednesday, Jan. 19, > Jeff Barber and possibly Greg Benage will be in the chat room to > answer any questions. Feel free to join us (and offer the Biohazard > dudes a well deserved Congratulations! :-) What time (and time zone)? >> That would be 8pm Central time. More details can be found on the Prosperity Station message board. - Fixer :-) *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: BIOHZD@aol.com Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 5:36 PM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Prosperity Station Chat Hey All, Just a reminder...Greg and I will be hosting an internet chat at the Yahoo Club's Prosperity Station site this Wednesday night. The agenda for the evening is an open discussion about the new partnership with Fantasy Flight Games, the second edition of Blue Planet, and the furture of the product line. We will begin at 8pm central time, and will run until 10pm or so. Come one...come all... Jeff Barber Biohazard Games *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: gareth hanrahan [hanrahag@iol.ie] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 6:05 PM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Prosperity Station Chat >Just a reminder...Greg and I will be hosting an internet chat at the Yahoo >Club's Prosperity Station site this Wednesday night. The agenda for the >evening is an open discussion about the new partnership with Fantasy Flight >Games, the second edition of Blue Planet, and the furture of the product >line. We will begin at 8pm central time, and will run until 10pm or so. Come >one...come all... > >Jeff Barber >Biohazard Games For the benefit of the Europeans who can't stay up until the godforsaken hours of the night... can someone post a log of the chat? Gar "You thought that you were the bomb Yes well so did I" - Tori Amos, Spark *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Ankfix@aol.com Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 6:34 PM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Prosperity Station Chat In a message dated 1/17/00 7:14:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, hanrahag@iol.ie writes: << For the benefit of the Europeans who can't stay up until the godforsaken hours of the night... can someone post a log of the chat? Gar >> I wouldn't know how to record a chat in the Yahoo! chat rooms. I will try to find out, but I can't make any promises... - Fixer *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.