Re: PCS/NPCS AND UNLIMITED SCENARIO IDEAS

DAWGFACE wrote:

>ME?  and MY friends? Lord OERJAN, you will not find us playing  40K
with
>those BS artifical  tournement  scenarios.  i , for one, cannot figure
>out how anyone  could become locked into the same games over and over
>and over again. . . .

Then why the h**l did you - appearently automatically - assume that I
was 
talking about WH40K-style fixed scenarios?

>the naming of names  for soldiers, ships, fighters, tanks, guns, is
>soooo commo among the older sci-fi gamers in the SFW area, and the
>younger gamers who interact with them (hell we raised	two distinct 
age
>groups of gamers down there!).

<sigh>

You're changing the subject. We were discussing your use of
vaguely-defined 
"cultural arketypes" as a short-hand to describe the behaviour of
various 
troopers/units; now all of a sudden you switch to talking about naming
your 
troopers, units etc. to give more flavour to your games and AARs.

Unless you actually name your hero trooper after John Wayne's character
in 
"The Fighting SeaBees" or whatever, the name you give him gives no hint 
about how he might react during the game; and if it gives no hint about
his 
reactions it is not a "shorthand" - and therefore something completely 
different from what we were talking about.

(FWIW I too have been naming my units and occasional individuals (I
don't 
play very much skirmish-level gaming outside actual role-playing games,
so 
I haven't had very many individuals to name). I've done this for as long
as 
I've been gaming - it comes naturally when you start out as a historical

gamer and role player. But, as I said, that's not what we were
discussing - 
we were discussing shorthand character descriptions.)

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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