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Re: Heard at The Local Game Store...

From: Ground Zero Games <jon@g...>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:13:26 +0000
Subject: Re: Heard at The Local Game Store...

>Stuart Ford wrote:
>>
>> > "Full Thrust 2nd Edition was the greatest space combat game ever
>> > created, but thoses abortions Stargrunt II and Dirtside II should
be
>> > burned and never published again."
>> >
>> > It was one of the store's owners.
>> > --
>> > Later,
>> > Mark A. Siefert
>>
>> Was this at AGP????	 If so, i'm shocked..
>
>	Yup...	You can see that I am caught in a rather strange
situation. The
>guy quoted is a member of the FT Munchkins, and was a vocal opponent to
>the Fleet Book rules.
>	I'm caught in a rather strange mess here.  AGP is the only game
store
>in my immediate vicinity, and despite this one slip-up they give very
>good service.	Hell, I'm friends with most of these people. All of the
>people I game with met here.  However, besides FT 2, it is not a GZG
>friendly store.  Most of them turned up their noses at FMA when I tried
>to find playtesters for it.

Well, everyone is entitled to their opinion.... <grin>

Out of curiosity, and to understand what kind of person we are dealing
with
here, what kind of games (FT aside) DOES he like...?

I generally find that those who don't like the FB modifications are the
same people who munchkinize FT by exploiting every loophole in FT 2nd ed
that we tried to close in FB1.....

Jon (GZG)
>
>--
>Later,
>Mark A. Siefert
>
>
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