clarence Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 There's a new review of M-SPACE on RPG.net, written by Joakim Waern. He gives it five stars out of five : ) Read it here: https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/17/17010.phtml 7 Quote FrostByte Books M–SPACE d100 Roleplaying in the Far Future Odd Soot Science Fiction Mystery in the 1920s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threedeesix Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 And well deserved Clarence, I finally got my copy in the mail and have just yesterday started reading it. Fantastic job, you should be proud. On a side note, can you describe an X-Fighter and a T-Fighter so I can better visualize them? And What's a Falcon? Love it. Well done. Rod 2 Quote Join my Mythras/RuneQuest 6: Classic Fantasy Yahoo Group at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/RQCF/info "D100 - Exactly 5 times better than D20" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarence Posted November 25, 2016 Author Share Posted November 25, 2016 Yes, shameless infringement right? : ) I'm thinking more and more that Star Wars is for sci-fi what Tolkien is for fantasy. It's such a widespread reference that you don't have to explain anything about it. Makes life a little easier for RPG players & writers... 2 Quote FrostByte Books M–SPACE d100 Roleplaying in the Far Future Odd Soot Science Fiction Mystery in the 1920s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g33k Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Of course, SW in RPG'dom then more-or-less-inevitably becomes the infinintely-copied (and most-often, BADLY copied) or minimally-varied norm. It becomes almost "fashionable" to despise all the derived works, and even the interesting & high-quality ones become tarred with the same "oh, another bad copy of..." brush. I still remember a few years ago -- before the Peter Jackson movies -- when I was talking to a youngster who had read several LOTR-derived series and THEN they read LOTR... and they were complaining about how "Tolkien had copied soooo muuuuch" Quote C'es ne pas un .sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g33k Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Also: kudo's on the 5+5 review. I wish it had been a bit longer & more robust... M-Space deserves it! 4 Quote C'es ne pas un .sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarence Posted November 27, 2016 Author Share Posted November 27, 2016 15 hours ago, g33k said: Of course, SW in RPG'dom then more-or-less-inevitably becomes the infinintely-copied (and most-often, BADLY copied) or minimally-varied norm. It becomes almost "fashionable" to despise all the derived works, and even the interesting & high-quality ones become tarred with the same "oh, another bad copy of..." brush. Yes, there's always that struggle in cultural production: finding the perfect mix between the all-new and the habitual. There's of course not one solution to this, as players are everything from casual consumers to prosumers to professionals. Perhaps RPGs need to go the "casual consumer" path quite a lot? They are after all completely dependent on the player's ability to envision a setting/world/scene, and falling back on common ideas makes that easier. Quote FrostByte Books M–SPACE d100 Roleplaying in the Far Future Odd Soot Science Fiction Mystery in the 1920s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g33k Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 (edited) 5 hours ago, clarence said: Yes, there's always that struggle in cultural production: finding the perfect mix between the all-new and the habitual. There's of course not one solution to this, as players are everything from casual consumers to prosumers to professionals. Perhaps RPGs need to go the "casual consumer" path quite a lot? They are after all completely dependent on the player's ability to envision a setting/world/scene, and falling back on common ideas makes that easier. My experience is that local variation is... kinda large. Where I live, for example, Warhammer (the mini's game) seems to be dominant -- to judge from the nearest FLGS, and talking to them about what they stock / what sells / etc (WH rpg is... miniscule there). The next-nearest FLGS has much more RPG's than WH stuff, but generally they too do a brisk trade in mini's / wargames... Personally, I'm quite QUITE tired of D&D's semi-Tolkienesque pastiche, but prefer it to no gaming; so when that's what's available, that's what I play... Edited November 27, 2016 by g33k Quote C'es ne pas un .sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinabrett Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 A great review for a wonderful piece of work. Well done, Clarence. Colin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarence Posted November 28, 2016 Author Share Posted November 28, 2016 Thank you Colin! I'm happy you like it. Quote FrostByte Books M–SPACE d100 Roleplaying in the Far Future Odd Soot Science Fiction Mystery in the 1920s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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