Campaign worlds

[Scott Adams]

At 02:52 PM 11/8/00 +0100, you wrote:

>Now, with all the votes tallied, I predict (fill in your candidate) the
>winner...  what a close one, eh?

And I'm here in florida where its the center of the funness :)

>Anyway, as I recall Fringeworthy was actually the predicessor to Gamma
>World, but I may have that confused with another game I had.  Fringeworthy
>was very neat in concept, but I prefered Ancient/Futures (a "homemade"
>never to be published game - or so it would seem some 20 years later -
>which was also "self-based"(usually, but not always)).  Fringeworthy can
>now be "seen" on Cable networks under the name "Stargate SG-1".  Which is
>also cool.

Not quite.  Fringeworthy was Tri Tac and GW was GDW or Games Workshop
I forget which ones.  They were different as well.  FW was a game of portal
traveling
to different worlds wheras GW was on earth and post holocaust game of the
future.
I ran both and still do great systems.  SG-1 is only like FW in that it uses a
form of
portal but I always said Sliders was more like FW in some ways.  But FW was
out
way before either show existed :)

>I would have to say this about BAD *SS characters... treat them like it.
>If they have a rep, make them live up to it.  Have them tick off the wrong
>people with their attitude.  Boot Hill (another game I LOVED - REAL History
>and gun fights, too cool) was a great system for teaching GM's two things:
>the bigger they are the harder they fall AND don't be afraid to kill
>someone when you set them up in an ambush and they don't see it coming (one
>other thing I learned from Boot Hill is that a repeating riffle (c. 1889)
>was a character's best friend AND their worst nightmare).

Another classic game I liked and ran.  BH and then Tin Star was the sister
game.

>PS. I have a list of 15 or so people's names... I need addresses as well
>(only got one, plus me, plus my bro and sis...).  It's still gonna be a
>while though, so if you are weary you can wait until it actually exists
>first :)

I'll send my address when the project nears its completion.  You might lose it
and
rather wait a bit before I give it out.  But I will at tht time.  When you are
done
as well you might post a index of what all is on it so if there is something
someone did
that you don't have it can be added.  OR I can do a cd as well here with all
that
I have downloaded :)  I think I have everything out there but the Tower of
Dead
(in full).  


Its funny all these people who come out on the CD but don't post in the
past :<

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