I agree with your classification scheme, although in my ideal world I would throw GURPS away altogether--for the purposes of Asylum discussions, anyway. It seems to raise a lot more (pointless) questions than it answers. You'd think if they were serious about solving some of the mysteries they'd at least have named the rest of the Nine. And the bit about the Deceiver still being alive really bugs me. I watched that guy get spread across half the map, I saw my Heron Guard Heroes get sprayed with his gore... and now he's feelin' fine? This makes me think that when Bungie approved the book they were just getting back from a long night of writing Halo and just about anything would have been acceptable.
: Your friend worked on CoC? Cool! I have some issues with
: their interpretation--particularly the creation of the
: category "Great Old Ones" and the tendency
: to put every big nasty guy in this category unless
: there's a heap of evidence to the contrary--but as you
: say they had to make a "best fit", and it
: was their call to include a lot of Cthulhu Mythos
: stuff by other authors, at the risk of annoying HPL
: purists like me. On the whole, I'd say Call of Cthulhu
: is the most thoughtful, immersive and entertaining RPG
: I've ever seen.
Yeah, that was kinda how he felt. He threw out most of the "third party" stuff... but then he just ended up inventing his own creatures to throw at the players. The problem he discovered and which I'm sure the guys who wrote CoC wrestled with, is that HPL was big on the omniscient gods and pretty thin on the wandering zombie type monsters.
: YOU BASTARD! YOU DISGUSTING, VERMINOUS, PURULENT--just
: kidding. Were you really worried about personal
: attacks? What do you think this is, a Halo forum? :)
I know of at least one person on this forum who gets pretty rude. I've read some pretty nasty posts here. Ninety-nine and forty-four one hundredths per cent pure though, you're right. This is one of the friendly forums I've found and I'm grateful to you all for that.
: But just in case, I'll jump on the bandwagon. Don't
: anyone shout at me, or I'll cry. Plus I'll go to a
: Tribes forum and tell them the Inmates were capping on
: Tribes. Believe me, the resultant response will bring
: the Asylum down in flames.
: --SiliconDream
What's Tribes? (he asked, grinning like he just got off the bus). Is this some PC game I'll never be able to play on my Mac, or is it some Pagan lifestyles board?
