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  "thread": {
    "id": 1270,
    "subject": "BURPS",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-11-23T16:34:43+00:00",
    "last": "1998-11-23T16:34:43+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0021-0083@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Paul C Duggan",
        "address": "pduggan at world.std.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-23T16:34:43+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) BURPS",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The first draft of GURPS New Sun was turned in on time and uploaded\nfor playtesting.  A year or so went by.  Instructions for a pre-final\nrewrite were handed down.  This requested second draft was turned in\non time, two or three years ago, and apparently never uploaded for\nplaytest/review.  (Turned in by me, I might as well bluntly point\nout, since I am the author and instigator of the whole cursed\nproject.)  It has been used as desk ballast, or so I've been told."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "That is disturbing. I'm glad I got my playtest copy archived..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At this late date (seven years [objective time] in, but who's\ncounting?), anybody wanting to play something like TBOTNS should\nprobably just buy the science fantasy role-playing game \"Fading Suns\"\n(1996) and tweek it a bit.  (Since I sense all sorts of copyright\ninfringment or \"unacknowledged homage\" to Gene Wolfe in \"Fading\nSuns\"; but I'm probably just insanely bitter about this and Wombat,\nwith his greater knowledge of the gaming industry and its\nintersection with the Law, Wombat, I say, could probably point out\nthe fine line which \"Fading Suns\" doesn't cross. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I dunno. What do they got that only Gene got? So they call God Pancreator\nand have ALL the suns fading out due to some spiritual crisis.\n\nThey also have:\n\tan active interstellar emprire\n\tjumpgates\n\tlots of psi-powers\n\ta factional church\n\ta lot of other standard SF tropes.\n\tno time-travel\n\nNow Games Worshop's Tyranid aliens did some serious \"atmosphere\" rip-off\nof Wolfe.\n\nAlien types include: Lictor, Carnifex, Heirophant, Heirodule, and\nZoanthropes. All of these name seem to have been chosen for no other\nreason than that they sound kewl. \n\n\n Keywords: \"Gods &"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Demigods\" [first edition]; hobbits into bobbits, balrogs into\nbalrons; issues of \"look and feel\"; etc.)\n\nThose on a tight budget could probably squeek by with the \"Pyramid\"\narticle and Metagaming's \"The Fantasy Trip\" (1980), or just \"Melee\"\nand \"Wizard\" (1977)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "And don't forget to use Thundarr the Barbarian for additional inspiration! \n:-) BTW, Mr. Sarcos wants to know if Mantis is manic enough to attempt a\nreincept of his homonculus. (you know what I refer to...)\n\nPaul"
        }
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