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From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0000

>>Play the <hic> game (burp!)<<

Just got the rules!  It's a nice concept
with some really fun ideas in it.  I'm quite looking forward to the game,
actually.
Congratulations!

I hope you don't mind if I bring up a comment here about it... just to see how
people feel about abstract game elements.

Now call me a prude (I'm not, but call me it if you like!) <grin> but for some
reason the presence of 'smoke pot' type orders and
the ability to carry dope around took the edge of the game for me.

I don't know why... I was looking forward to a stupid-but-fun game of drinking
a lot of beer and having huge bar brawls... and the presence of drugs was just
too *real*.  It took away the 'humour' (even though it was done humourously)
for me.

I would have enjoyed the rules and the game more without them there at all, I
think. Not because Im particularly anti-drugs (I *am*, but that's not why) but
because it changed the atmosphere of the game for me.

Just thought I'd mention it. I may be the only one, in which case ignore me
completely.... but if other people feel the same then maybe its worth thinking
about.

Other games use drugs and it works well.  A space game can have horrific drugs,
far worse than the paltry effects of a joint of course, but the ;fantasy'
element makes their presence acceptable... even important in some games.

KJC had 'streetdope' in Its A Crime, but again, if you are playing a street
crime game the reality of drugs is gonna be there. (And they did it in a very
abstract way which was quite clever, I thought.)  I guess in a
beer-monsters-on-the-town game it has a place too... but something about the
way you did it didn't work for me.

Steve Tierney

References

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"Warrior Games - News" <warrior@zen.co.uk>
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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"Warrior Games - News" <warrior@zen.co.uk>
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