Re: [BNW] New game for me

[Theron Bretz <tbretz@mciworld.com>]

>As per my previous post to Theron, I don't think BNW _is_ a meta-character
>creation system, which seemed to be his complaint against it.

Not exactly.  It's more along the lines of the designer including things in
the source material that the players can't aspire to (for example, if I
wanted to play a Phaser before that package was available in a sourcebook,
it wasn't possible according to the rules).  It's the lack of power options
for PCs in light of the clearly greater range of undefined options in the
setting that annoys me.  My complaint isn't that it isn't a meta-character
creation system, it's that it is a package system with far too few, and too
expensive (in dollars and cents) packages available.

Your own mileage clearly varies, but that's the soul of debate.

Theron
Houston