Re: [SG] comparing SG

I never liked all the "traditional Fantasy stuff" in that game. (WH40K) 
 I
never bought any, just reading the back of the box/books was enough to
put
me off.  Mixing SF with fantasy always seemed like a bad idea.	(maybe
because it is so hard to do well.)

I never understood why the "bad guys" races all had to look "exceedingly
ugly" boardering on "horrific".  Other settings games is afflicted with
this as well.  (latest I know of: Starwars -- Youzan vong invasion...I
am
not spelling it right.)

About the only thing from WH40K I liked was their space battle
games...Reading articals about new ships/weapons/ect. would give me
ideas
for my own games.  Its simple enough that you could almost drag stuff
across to another game without translation...

Donald Hosford

Phillip Atcliffe wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:12:40 +1100 Alan and Carmel Brain
> <aebrain@austarmetro.com.au> wrote:
>
> > From: "John Crimmins" <johncrim@voicenet.com>
> >> (I do like bits of the 40K background -- especially since they've
> moved away from the idea that the Imperium is neccessarily the good
> guys <<
>
> > Returning to the Rogue Trader roots. Some of the original illos
> showed the inner sanctum of the Emperor in very Geigeresque style. It
> called into question whether this was the lesser of two Evils. <
>
> That was a _question_? The 40K background _never_ looked to have any
> good guys in it. The Imperium is a bunch of power-mad religious
> fanatics; the Eldar are ruthless survivalists with the usual
> superiority complex; I'm not even going to bother describing the Orks
> and the Tyranids; the various Chaos/Dark Whatever forces are, by
> definition, evil; and I've seen nothing to make me think the Tau are
> any better.
>
> The whole concept of the 40K universe is a Dark Future(tm) in which
> There Is Only War(tm). There is no optimism, no honour (only twisted
> reflections of it), no trust, and the whole thing "works" purely on
the
> basis of Might Makes Right.
>
> That's one of the reasons why I loathe GW. This is not a concept that
I
> think should be aimed at children.
>
> Phil
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