Re: [OT] Jon Tuffley Made It Into Murphy's Rules!

>At 10:43 AM 3/13/99 +0000, you wrote:
>[snip]
>>Yes, I DID submit the Murphy's myself, as have several designers and
>>writers who aren't afraid to laugh at themselves a bit! Marcus Rowland
is
>>another, who submitted his own Murphy's from Forgotten Futures (his
>>shareware Victorian SF RPG) about "stealthy elephants and noisy mice"
(see
>>the last Murphy's compilation, now in print).
>>The FT Murphy's came about from meeting John Kovalic (a really great
guy,
>>BTW) on his recent trip over to the UK. John's a keen FT fan - if you
pick
>>up his latest issue of Dork Tower (no.3) - the one with the "Global
Village
>>Idiot" line on the cover - and look very carefully at the game books
and
>>boxes in the cartoon, you should find "Fool Thrust" there
somewhere.....
>>I'm very chuffed to have got into Murphy's - a lot of the rules in
there
>>are ones that (like the FT one) make sense in terms of playability and
game
>>function, but make little or no sense in "real world" terms, and
that's why
>>they're funny.
>>Besides, it seeing the cartoon makes just ONE gamer think "Hmmm, Full
>>Thrust, wossis then....?" and go look for it at his store, then that
can't
>>be a bad thing.......
>>Oh, and thanks for all the kind comments - I THINK I can just about
get my
>>head through the office door still.....
>>
>>:-)
>>
>>Jon (GZG)
>>
>>PS: John Kovalic's site is www.kovalic.com
>>Go and have a look at his Murphy's and Dork Tower stuff!
>
>While you were at it, did you also include the tidbit about screening
>fighters being able to exceed a fighter's normal movement rates?  I
have
>visions of the fighter screen being shaken, rattled, and rolled as they
are
>caught up in the starship's high speed gravitic 'wake' . . .
>
>[ducking]

I could give you a long, involved and completely spurious PSB reasoning
for
this, but I won't.....

<GRIN>

Jon (GZG)
>
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