Re: [BNW] Dissapointments

[GeoffGart@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/25/99 10:00:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
sidhain@Earthlink.net writes:

<< I am not trying to get offensive about wanting a complete game, just that 
it
 strikes me as very money grubbing the way PEG has decided to produce the
 books Pretty art, and layout or not--I guess I should learn the lesson to
 NEVER buy a 1st edition game--make sure it makes it to 2nd before bothering
 because likely they  learn their lessons about what should be in a Rulebook.
 
 And it's not like I dislike BNW I think it's a pretty decent effort except
 for the 10 packages here and 5 there method of producing the game. >>

I have to agree with you, I dislike this method as well.  There are about 350 
pages in the first two BNW books and about 25 pages are devoted to power 
packages.  With each package sometimes taking up less than a page, it seems 
that there is little reason that a couple dozen more couldn't have been 
included.  Maybe they could have cut some of Patriot's story out of the first 
book, after all, the cover says "The Brave New World Player's Guide," not 
"Patriot's Autobiography."  Instead, the packages will come out piecemeal.  
This will only make sense to me if the packages are somehow specific to the 
books they come out in.  For example, if the packages included in the 
Defiants' book are ones which are somehow exclusive or related to the 
Defiance movement.  My other concern about this method is that the packages 
may be more powerful and overshadow the ones already published.

I also like Brave New World, but at the moment I am more inclined to play and 
purchase products for Aberrant.

Geoff Garton