Game Drift Finale

Wombat, Ah, "Tales of the Arabian Nights" in limbo. I guess it happens a lot, but I really wish it didn't happen to my projects and things I'm looking for. Selfish of me, I know. Then again, German games seem to be going gang-busters these days, so maybe "TotAN" will become another smash hit/import like "Settlers of Cataan" (sp?) is/was! Re: SJGames website (io.com) availability of first-draft "GURPS BOTNS," I have no idea. Re: "Fading Suns," no, I was just curious as to what opinions you might have formed of it before I hinted my biased opinions. I withhold recommendation, and find myself increasingly wary/weary of games that do not include bibliographies (granted that such may well be a result of "Cover Your Fundament" strategies learned from TSR's legal hassles, but still--the venerable and seminal "D&D" listed Barsoom, Vance, and others). Re: "GURPS Basic" now days more low budget than "Melee" and "Wizard." Well, maybe . . . like a dog-eared used "GURPS Basic" vs. unpunched mint condition "Melee"/"Wizard"? Thing of it is, the current version of GURPS =requires= not only the latest edition of "Basic" ("Third Edition Revised") but also "Compendium I: Character Creation," and I'm guessing that these two cost $20 each, maybe a bit more. And I could've sworn I've seen non-mint "Melee"/"Wizard" in the $10 each range. To spare other list readers we should take this into private e-mail. =mantis=

Probably. I did want to make one other point of moderately general interest, which is that Steve Jackson has developed "GURPS Lite", a boiled-down version of GURPS in 24 pages, designed to be included in worldbooks deemed to be of interest to an audience beyond hardened role-players. The first product to include the GURPS Lite rules was GURPS Discworld, the sourcebook for role-playing in Terry Pratchett's famous light fantasy world. GURPS New Sun with GURPS Light rules seems like a good book for crossover sales to an sf reader of a certain type.... Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html