From:	Kevin C. Carpenter [kccarpenter@sprynet.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, August 04, 1998 3:08 PM
To:	blue_planet@MPGN.COM
Subject:	Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Other Systems(longish)

Hmm, I for one know that I wouldn't be too enthused if my GM pulled
Lovecraftian horror on me when I had sat down expecting a hard sci-fi BP
game. :P

- Kevin


 I especially like the idea of doing the BP/CoC
>crossover *without* letting my players know, though I'm not sure they
>would be very happy with it...
>
>dan
>
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From:	Daniel Allard [dan@puente.jpl.nasa.gov]
Sent:	Tuesday, August 04, 1998 1:14 PM
To:	blue_planet@MPGN.COM
Subject:	Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Other Systems(longish)

> >	I dunno, hard SF and gothic horror are not generally two great tastes 
> that
> >taste great together.
> 
> It wouldn't be hard SF anymore, of course - the wormhole would be a 
> magical gate that scientists can't explain, and the aborigine nanotech 
> would be replaced by Lovecraftian superscience. But the level of detail 
> in the setting and CoC are a match made in Heav- I mean, Yuggoth. It'd 
> likely be a lot like a Delta Green campaign, with lots of conspiracies 
> and counterconspiracies (GEO's parapsychology department, with old files 
> about the weirdness that may have caused the Blight, would be at work on 
> Poseidon, big time... as would Incorporate agencies), dark modern horror 
> and End Times paranoia. Of course, the other good way to combine horror 
> with SF is by following the model of the "Alien" movie series, 
> especially the first two films.

Of course, when you merge Delta Green and Blue Planet, you'll need to decide
why the stars weren't right some 200 years ago...  Overall, I think this could be
a really exciting idea.  I especially like the idea of doing the BP/CoC
crossover *without* letting my players know, though I'm not sure they
would be very happy with it...

dan

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