Re: [WW] The points that I was trying to make on Blood on the Rhine

[TERicker@aol.com]

As for the medals, I think this is a tad bit ethno-centric to complain that 
they left out canadian medals.  Why not complain that they left out Polish 
Medals, or Medals of the Scandinavian countries or australian medals or the 
fact that they didn't include the various american service specific medals.  

There were many many countries who played an important part in the War and 
none of them were really mentioned except in passing.  It's just a fact of 
life that no work, whether it is fiction or non-fiction, is going to have 
everything in it.  Instead of complaining about the fact, work at fixing it 
for yourself.

As for what systems they should have used, I would have prefered to see them 
do this using Chaoism's Call of Cthuhlu rules, but hey... that's life.

And finally, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the Shriners are the elite 
of the Freemason's.  And, I personally believe that the Freemason's are one 
of the reasons the SoS exist.  The Freemasons are an elitist group that uses 
magic for it's own ends... which usually means to garner power.

Tate

In a message dated 9/1/01 3:39:07 PM Central Daylight Time, magician@bc1.com 
writes:


> Sorry if my last e-mail got alot of you confused, The points that I was
> trying to get across with Blood on the Rhine WW2 source book
>
> First the gaming system as I stated before that I don't like the D20 system,
> Mainly because it was the system that replaced the unbroken AD&D system. Has
> Pinnacle thought of conversion rules for Weird Wars for there other system?,
> Which I like better.
>
> Secondly on Medals what I mean is that the official list isn't very detailed
> for each Ally and Axis country, I think that Canada has at least five or six
> Medals that even before the Knightly order Medals. That the another type of
> Medals that they left out of this WW2 Weird War source book, But these type
> of Order and Heroic Medals aren't just awarded willy nilly. The person has
> to do a great service to there country and there branch of armed services,
>
> Thirdly Rune magic, Now personally it's an interesting twist on magic for
> WW2 Weird Wars, And I can see how it's suitable for the Nazis and Allies
> fighting them. But it does mention in Blood on the Rhine that there were
> other forms of magic during WW2, That's when thought about the Freemasons.
>
>
> Fourthly the Freemasons, Now make take on them is this in the Weird Wars WW2
> world is this, Like the Sons of Solomon that they had mystical and hidden
> knowledge. Acording to Freemason myth that there desended from a Grand
> Master mason who was working on a temple for king Solomon, He had four
> underlings who wanted his knowledge and were willing to kill for it. So each
> of the four encountered and stab him with there chisel to get the info, And
> he survived each attack  He deccied to found a group to inlighted and
> protect his info, Now Scotish and English Freemasonary believed that they
> were founded by the Knight's Templar. American Freemansonary Differs from
> European due to the fact that they still use the death threat if you reveal
> Freemason secerts and rites, Canadian Freemasonary is more benign they act
> like Shriners. They walk proudly in local prades and give lot of money to
> local charities,