Ummm.... Farscape?

[Terradyne]

Farscape exists...and looks great!

Rob,

I went to GENCON on Friday knowing I was going to pick up Decipher's Lord of the Rings RPG, but I wasn't sure what else was coming home with me. Guess what I got? Thats right, Farscape. The book looked too great to pass by. You guys did a great job on it, it looks fantastic. I can't wait to dive into it and read it through. I'd do it now but I just got back and must sleep.

Thanks.


*Edited for spelling - ughhh. its late*

 

[Horacio]

Oh, next week is going to be an expensive one...

Farscape, LOTR, SAS d20...

 

[Azzy]

Rygel's discussion made it worse, becane it drew attention to the fact that shrinking as a technology is nonsensical. They would have been better off without the discussion, then the show could have moved on and the viewers can say "oh yeah, plot device." But that discussion really made it stand out like a turd in a punch bowl.

Personally, I loved Rygel's comment. It was halarious, and smacked of the truth: many scientists think that they have everything figured out--in truth, they're just pretentious children with a tenuous grasp on the game at hand. After all, less than a century ago, it was considered impossible to break the sound barrier.

Or, as the Dark Crystal put it, "Prophets don't know eveything."

 

[Neo]

Re: Farscape exists...and looks great!

Rob,

I went to GENCON on Friday knowing I was going to pick up Decipher's Lord of the Rings RPG, but I wasn't sure what else was coming home with me. Guess what I got? Thats right, Farscape. The book looked too great to pass by. You guys did a great job on it, it looks fantastic. I can't wait to dive into it and read it through. I'd do it now but I just got back and must sleep.

Thanks.


*Edited for spelling - ughhh. its late*

Any Teasers Terradyne?

 

[Voneth]

Personally, I loved Rygel's comment. It was halarious, and smacked of the truth: many scientists think that they have everything figured out--in truth, they're just pretentious children with a tenuous grasp on the game at hand. After all, less than a century ago, it was considered impossible to break the sound barrier.

Or, as the Dark Crystal put it, "Prophets don't know eveything."

Let's not forget that engineers working for the railroad also warned that traveling faster than 75 miles an hour would likey kill people because they couldn't breathe the air rushing by at that speed.

Glad to see others got my drift on Rygel's siloquly. And a happy dance that Farscape is out. I knew I should have given some money to my friends to pick it up.

 

[jhilahd]

Ok...

FINALLY got word from my Gen Con buddies yesterday afternoon around 3:30pm(right before the dealer's room shut down). Making sure I wanted a copy of Farscape and if there was anything else I wanted.

Well, after buying FS, I didn't have much in the way of more.

Hopefully, I'll have it in my grubby lil' hands by Wednesday. They drove up to GC from Dallas, TX. So... knowing them. They'll leave today and take their sweet time getting home.

Don't they know I am suffering, which'll lead to fear, which will lead to anger... uh... sorry wrong game setting.


Once I do get it, I'll post some thoughts on it. I can't wait, and they know they have set themselves up. Why you ask? Well, a couple of my regular gamers are out for the next two weeks. So my regular D&D game is not gonna happen, and one of those players is also in my pulp d20 game. So she would kill me if I ran it with out her. The other GM I share the table with has told me he won't be ready to run anything for a while, so his story/game is on hold.

I have free reign.

Now my only true problem is not running something else. Because having free reign to run whatever I want(per my players) is hurting my head.

I mean, we haven't played - Spycraft, Star Wars, Omega World, ShadowChasers, Call of Cthulhu, Fading Suns, Deadlands or any number of games I would love to run. ooooo... brain swelling from decision making...

Later

-Jhilahd

 

[dlurking]

To him, and to everyone else who feels frustrated by the lengthy delays, I apologize. But we feel that the resulting book is very strong and that fans will find it worth the wait.

Will there be additional books after this one? That's solely up to Henson. We're contracted for one book, and any more will come solely at their discretion.

The primary issue for me hasn't so much been that there were delays, but that AEG had done an absolutely awful job at informing the consumer of the delays. The website still says the current release date is July. And, until recently, included references to three suppliments all with release dates listed for last autumn. I understand that delays happen, but AEG needs to have much better customer relations. No announcement was made at any time that a delay had occured and each time I (and others) checked with our local games store to see if it had arrived, only to be disappointed.

 

[Ayrk]

The primary issue for me hasn't so much been that there were delays, but that AEG had done an absolutely awful job at informing the consumer of the delays. The website still says the current release date is July. And, until recently, included references to three suppliments all with release dates listed for last autumn. I understand that delays happen, but AEG needs to have much better customer relations. No announcement was made at any time that a delay had occured and each time I (and others) checked with our local games store to see if it had arrived, only to be disappointed.

I agree wholeheartedly. I'm impressed you found something on their website that mentions Farscape. I remember it had a small tab once on their site and that disappeared. Since then I've never found anything on their site mentioning it.

The people who have been clamoring for this book are the very people that will convince others to buy it, yet they are the ones who could never get accurate information on when it would come out. I was very frustrated by the whole thing.

 

[Gallowglass]

Let's not forget that engineers working for the railroad also warned that traveling faster than 75 miles an hour would likey kill people because they couldn't breathe the air rushing by at that speed.

Glad to see others got my drift on Rygel's siloquly. And a happy dance that Farscape is out. I knew I should have given some money to my friends to pick it up.

Whilst this is fine in principle, it also encourages vacuous idiocy such as Brannon Braga's (too much of Enterprise, most of Voyager) utter contempt for not just current scientific thinking but also basic logic. Whilst no SF can be solidly scientific, it can at least be plausible and show a basic respect for current science and it's audience's basic intelligence (ParSec for example is not, contrary to what Star Wars and Space:1999 think, a unit of velocity but of distance...).

I like Farscape and I love Star Wars, but contempt for basic science is not big and is not clever and is not necessary. Star Wars I can forgive (it is blatantly obviously a FairyTale and not SF in any meaningful sense), Farscape I'll tolerate (mainly because the cast of characetrs is so entertaining) but in general if something is going to bill itself as Science Fiction it should have a basic respect for current scientific understanding and scientific theories... And yes, that is more restrictive of the writers imagination; it is called being disciplined and is something that many shows (and Games!) could do with learning...

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

Why should SciFi shows limit themselves to modern thinking as far as Science goes? Especially if they are set far into the future or a distant part of the galaxy? As we have seen many times in the past when we think we know exactly what is going on with the world around us, we find out just how wrong we are. I personally enjoy SciFi that takes their own twists on scientific advances. Oh well to each their own.