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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 1750224" data-attributes="member: 19893">By that standard, you should have no right to say your computer is a piece of crap unless you're Bill Gates; you also couldn't criticise the massive failures of General Ambrose Burnside in the US civil war unless you were also a civil war general, and you'd better not say that Full House was mindless television programming unless you have produced your own tv show.Absolutely beside the point, in other words.  I'm very good at my job, my job does not happen to be game design. That doesn't mean I can't criticize game designers.Incidentally, the "butchery" reference was not so much a criticism of Baugh's Gamma World as a setting, rather it was a criticism of the fact that it was named "gamma world"; when it really has nothing to do with the spirit or flavour of the original gamma world other then being post-apocalyptic (though p-a in a totally different way from the original).  I don't claim to know whether Baugh was told by powers above that he had to write the setting that way, or if it was his own personal desire to impose his own post-ap setting on the name Gamma World without the slightest concern for honouring the style of the classic setting, but in either case someone made a fundamental, monumental mistake.To see an example of Gamma World for D20 done right, see Jonathan Tweet's Omega World. If only there could be some way to convince him to turn that into a full-blown setting (maybe for D20 future?). But hell, even Darwin's World and Redline come closer to the real GW than the post-modernist bad-game-fiction-laden eco-fairytale that currently stole the Gamma World name.Nisarg</blockquote>

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