[TML] Just a heads up link about computers and the newdirectionof D&D

[Richard Aiken]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Mikko Parviainen <pare at pieni.net> wrote:
> and I hear Thousands Suns
> is good, too.

IMO, Thousand Suns definitely has potential.  It feels very much like
Traveller, which only makes sense, given that the two games share the
same inspiration sources (70's/80's space opera novels).  But TS has
been boiled down to the bare essentials and has a very streamlined and
consistent rules system.

However, it requires a creative GM, simply because it is very generic.
 The authors freely admit this, however, and promise future support
for the "meta-setting" in consequence.  There is also apparently at
least one adventure available for free download already (but I haven't
gone to get it yet).

All that being said, the copy of the rules which I have has a whole
lot of typos.  But since I got that copy for free (the publisher sent
it in response to my rant here about two-column ebooks being rather
hard to read on a laptop) I can't really complain too much!

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein