OT Genres & Backgrounds was GW

I think the biggest problem *I* have with the background material for
game 
systems like WH40K (whick I've never played but watched a lot of games)
and 
Battletech (Which I played WAY too much) is not how dark or evil the
forces 
may or may not be - it's how little say I have over what the background
is 
like.  It's constricting.  That's the beauty of the generic nature of
GZG.  
Whether you play your take on a canon power, a non-canon power, or not
even 
in the Tuffleyverse, it's UP TO YOU.  The tone can bew as dark or light
or 
as many shades in between as you like.	You can fashion your power as 
despotic, enlightened, heroic, villainous, and as idealistic,
optimistic, 
realistic, pessimistic, or Mystic as you want.	I grew tired of having
to 
decide if I wanted to be a merc, a Davion, a Clanner, etc.... Now I can
be a 
Cascadian, and define what that means, or a NAC loyalist, or a Cylon, or
a 
Klingon, or a Moron...... OK, that one may be unavoidable.  But the rest
is 
up to me.

Brian B2

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