Re: [GZG] Gzg-l Digest, Vol 11, Issue 88

Doug Evans wrote:

>Maybe we can have hopes for a Stars At War III, er, IV? Nah, as it
seemed
>there was some reason Weber wasn't visiting the original fluff, in
spite,
>if I understand right, of him doing much of the expansion of it for
later
>additions. Pity...

Not just expansions. Weber wrote several editions of StarFire, including

GKW and 3rd Edition/Imperial Starfire, and designed the entire
historical 
timeline.

Unfortunately he treated tech advances very much as literary plot
devices, 
which made many of them extremely unbalancing for campaign play... and
when 
some of his playtesters took over the game system and pruned his worst 
technological excesses back to something that would allow the campaigns
to 
be fun even to those players who got second to develop The Winning 
Wondertech Gadget, he tired of StarFire altogether. That there were a
bunch 
of misunderstandings regarding who had the rights to what parts of the 
material didn't make it any better either.

>Wait, if Exodus ISN'T SAW III, then it would have to be coupled with
>another book for III, right?

Exodus takes place after Insurrection, but I'd be quite surprised if it 
gets turned into a StarFire scenario module.

Regards,

Oerjan
orjan.ariander1@comhem.se

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry

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