From: Chris Stilson [crazycat@orcalink.com] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 12:17 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Economic Campaigns Well, virtually every modern or future game I've been in the players have turned into merchants (admittedly their only cargo is black-market guns, but heck)... and it never seems to get boring for them. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Economic Campaigns > In a message dated Sun, 1 Oct 2000 2:23:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Mantisking@aol.com writes: > > << Howdy Mike Z; > I don't mind campaigns where the characters are traders. The first Traveller game I was ever in, we were the crew of a tramp freighter. It was great buying and selling cargo, trying to figure out what was the best thing to sell on each planet. The driving forces behind each trip were the challenge and the sense of adventure. Gurps: Far Trader takes all of > that away and turns it into columns of boring, stagnant numbers. It takes all of the guesswork and character interaction, and reduces it to a dice roll. No fun. > > Ray >> > > Depends on what the group wants to do. I once ran a > Shatterzone game in which the party were traders. I > couldn't do anything to get their mind off of trading. > They enjoyed speculating on the markets and making the > deal go down. I had to pull rules from Star Frontiers > and Star Wars : Tramp Freighters in order to handle > everything in a somewhat believable fashion. So when I > look at GURPS : Far Trader, I see exectly want I needed > to make my life easier all those years. > > I'd like to see a book for BP that covers the same ground as Far Trader, Merchant Princes, Tramp Freighter, Knight Hawks, ect... > *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Chris Stilson [crazycat@orcalink.com] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 12:00 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Fw: Sourcebook Possibilities Andy Wills writes: > On the sourcebook possibilities, I'm into less specific but a broader topic. Archipelago was perfect--it gave me lots of information, but didn't restrict me. So, my ideas, in order of preference. > > A Belter Sourcebook: The belts of both solar systems, Luna and Mars, and general spacer stuff--a few ship designs, space combat, spacer culture. > > A Campaign Book: General stuff with tips to work it into your campaigns. For example, I'm mulling a campaign about the USA attempting to separate from the GEO and gain a foothold on Poseidon, and I'll probably write it up for something, but if I do I'll start, for example, with a few documents "stolen" from the US Embassy talking about their timelines for operations, then a few about, say, a native extremist discovering part of it and pondering what to do. Again, not an adventure in a box, but the ingredients that the GM can put together to run their story. > > Survey--enough said. Maybe 64 or 96 pages instead of the full 128. > > A Cetecean AND Hybrid Sourcebook. 3/4 ceteceans, 1/4 hybrids. The hybrids are nice gamewise, but I don't find them as compelling. > > World of Hurt--I don't know why I don't want it as much as the belter book, but I don't. > > That's it for now, > > -Andy > > > _____________________________________________________________ > Sluggy.Net: The Sluggy Freelance Community! > *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Jerome Darmont [jdarmont@dionysos.univ-lyon2.fr] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 2:28 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Random Plot generator At 23:17 30/09/00 -0400, Ml10@aol.com wrote: >It is at : http://www.io.com/~tippy/blue_planet/BPrandomadv.html I get a Javascript error each time (Netscape 4.7). -- Jerome Darmont, mailto:darmont@multimania.com http://www.multimania.com/darmont/jdr/ *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.