Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 20:44:47 -0500
From: Chun-Kai Wang and Elisa Ford <zelt@xnet.com>
Subject: Re: [GM-7thSea] A couple of things


Actually... John said something about not advancing the time line till
all the nation supplement comes out? :)

Kevin Wang
> 
> Agreed.  Theres nothing worse when it comes to RPG supplements than a
> supplement that could have been cool but isn't.  Say for example you want to
> do a Ussura campaign set in 1668...but theres no Ussura Sourcebook.  So time
> goes by and finally an Ussura Sourcebook is released  GREAT.  But wait.  They
> used the sourcebook to advance the "plotline" and the book concentrates on
> Ussura in 1676 and the events and people going on then.  Much of it will
> likely be less than ideally suited to my 1668 campaign.
> 
> Someone mentioned Pendragon as the first with a developing plot line.  Not
> really.  In Pendragon you had a plotline but it was fully known in advance.
> You can choose any age to run your campaign.  Or start at 1 (pre arthur) as
> we did and work you way up (our original characters grandchildren died
> fighting Modred at the end).  But nothing was "saved" only to be revealed
> later.  That "hidden plotline" is what stinks.
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