From: Poh tun Kai [pohtk@hitech.com.my] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 3:46 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Giving up > Aw, dammit. I decided to give a pause to reading the old mailing list posts, > after not reading them for a while. Now I'm officially not-reading them. Not > that I'm not interested, it's just that it's not too easy or comfortable. > Maybe that reflects the life on Poseidon? Yeah, catching up can be a pain. If there's any topic you were hoping to find on the old lists, maybe you could bring it up in the present day? I'm sure someone here can help with your queries. > Much higher than the first time I saw the new covers. I was afraid you were > going to take away everything I love(d) in the first edition, by making the > game more...childish? Do shadowruns to it. Now I'm not, and I hope the new > edition will be even better. The new covers do look a bit more "shadowrun-ish" but I have high hopes in the contents and the new ruleset. Plus I'm biased, because I've written for it. :) Kai Poh Malaysian Lagomorph *************************************************************************** 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: Ville.Halonen@minedu.fi Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 3:34 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Giving up Aw, dammit. I decided to give a pause to reading the old mailing list posts, after not reading them for a while. Now I'm officially not-reading them. Not that I'm not interested, it's just that it's not too easy or comfortable. Maybe that reflects the life on Poseidon? Anyway, clicking Save file time and again has stopped for a moment -- as it probably is a bit more boring than fighting force 5 storms -- and as the v2 approaches I decided to concentrate on the present day mailing list. I've been reading Archipelago for a couple of days now, am ecstatic (does it show?) and enlarged the new covers to get a better look. I've actually come to like them, and have high hopes. Much higher than the first time I saw the new covers. I was afraid you were going to take away everything I love(d) in the first edition, by making the game more...childish? Do shadowruns to it. Now I'm not, and I hope the new edition will be even better. Don't let me down. Pleeze? I think I'll quit my over-enthusiastic babbling now. ETA too much. *************************************************************************** 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: Ville.Halonen@minedu.fi Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 4:45 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: VS: [BLUE PLANET] - Giving up Kai Poh, Malaysian Lagomorph wrote: >Yeah, catching up can be a pain. If there's any topic you were hoping to >find on the old lists, maybe you could bring it up in the present day? I'm >sure someone here can help with your queries. I had that in mind, yes, and I thought I had one. Can't remember it, though. By the way, your "bad fiction" was actually really enjoyable and packed BP in one page quite neatly. Overall BP's bad fiction in the first edition was way better than in most games. By the way #2, has there been any new information on the upcoming products? Are the planned 1st edition sourcebooks, like Wormhole and such, still coming up? Just can't wait. As to what I can do to this mailing group, well, I haven't even started playing yet :). I'm just thrilled by the world, and I believe that's all that counts. Game systems don't matter that much to me, although I prefer deadly combat to keep it down. But with the v2 on the way, I don't think starting a game with the v1 would be a good idea, so I'll do it maybe next month -- that is to say, as soon as I get the reading done. I have no greater ideas yet. Players seemed to be interested after I sent an about 20 k worth of hype (including the introduction from BP), and one of them had a waterworld-ish smuggler character in mind. I was hoping they'd all be VERY newcomers, completely new to the world, so I'd have a few surprises up my sleeve. I think I'll give them the Player's Guide and have a new look. A one-shot with newbies wouldn't hurt, I suppose. I'm trying to keep down the combat, in order to make them surprising and memorable, and overall keep the violence such that it really isn't a good thing. What I most like in Blue Planet is that it is intelligent, encouraging to intelligent gameplay and stories. Never before (note, I'm 20 in December and not that experienced with RPG's) have I really asked myself when preparing a game, "What do I want to say with this?" Maybe Babylon 5 had this influence on me. Within the main story line the differents game sessions, or "episodes", are more or less individual stories with their own themes and atmospheres. Instead of continuosly giving the players the One Huge Story and the same guano over and over again, maybe one story could be humorous, the next one very film noir and then I perhaps could thrust them into a Woo-esque action-packed thriller? Nothing new here (?), just sharing my thoughts. I guess some kind of an introduction is required from newbies. There's mine. Now, hands shaking, sweating, back to waiting. The time is near. *************************************************************************** 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: Ville.Halonen@minedu.fi Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 8:44 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Promises broken Look at me. I just officially announced and almost gave a press release concerning my pause at reading the old mailing list posts and now I've been reading them for a couple of hours. So I guess every time I want to do something I just have to convince myself I *don't* want to do it and there I go doing it. I bumped into the April -98 (haven't proceeded that much, I know...) genetics discussion and having just seen Mission: Impossible 2 (which wasn't that good, except for half an hour or so) it caught my eye. And also reminded me of a web page... www.virusmyth.com Anyone familiar with that? It isn't exactly the same thing as M:I2, but there's something in common...There's an Introduction area on the site, which is a good place to start -- big surprise. *************************************************************************** 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: Ml10@aol.com Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 9:23 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - The Perfect Storm I think that it opened in the US about the same time that Diablo 2 came out..... In a message dated Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:52:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Poh tun Kai" writes: << I wonder, why hasn't there been any discussion on the list about the film THE PERFECT STORM? It opened in Malaysia just the other week, and I just saw it this past weekend. It's a whopper of a spectacle film, the fishing and hurricane elements have a lot of relevance to Blue Planet, and the action in the Coast Guard sub-plot is great inspiration for GMs who run ERT campaigns. Then again, I don't know of a lot of GMs who have ever run ERT campaigns, apart from myself... Anyway, I enjoyed the film. Accepted the use of artistic license for what it was, dropped my jaw on the floor several times at the wave effects and generally had a good time. Now I have a much better idea what the inside of a Force 5 hurricane looks like... Kai Poh Malaysian Lagomorph *************************************************************************** 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: Heivilin, Jim [banzai@missouri.edu] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 4:19 PM To: 'list, blue planet' Subject: [FWD] Re: [BLUE PLANET] - The Perfect Storm -----Original Message----- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:16:56 -0700 (PDT) From: SATAN Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - The Perfect Storm To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com I don't know about you, but ERT campaigns can be fun...I run on currently, too. BRAD "The other, other white meat." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.