Author: Emerson (---.196.150)
Date: 07-31-2000 04:27
Yes, did you know that if you don't like GURPS, you have your head up your ass? I did not know this. No wonder it's been so dark and smelly lately...
I don't really care for GURPS much, but it's better than Palladium, I guess, or that What? game. It could be worse. It could be Toon. Or the D&D basic set from 1974 (shriek!). I see the many good and bad points GURPS has to offer (including that horrible name. Good god! Looks like I'm not the only one with my head up my ass. The only thing worse is FUDGE. I think they fudged on that one... I'm going to create a game called SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIHALITOSIS. I think the world is ready for that...), but I always see both sides, and I keep an open mind. Now for some fun.
Yes, GURPS. The wonder system. It can do anything. Did you know that if you buy a GURPS book, a starving armless child in Chetnovsiniakotvia receives a meal for a week? I did not know that! It also removes that "not so fresh feeling" Alex sometimes gets (see the reviewer reviewed), that rash on your ass, and with a little lube, is also used by NASA to land the Space Shuttle. Yes, GURPS. So powerful, it even makes your teeth white!
Ok, my real point is: I wonder why GURPS fans are so fanatical about that game. I don't understand it! They will shed blood to get it, poison your soup if you mock it (and they have an 18 or < to do it!), and will throw your entire family into the ocean with a new pair of cement slippers if you refuse to buy it. Folks, it's just a game! It has good points and bad points, and though Exline failed to describe either, it is just a game! Get a life! Put your dice down and take a trip back to reality once in a while. Maybe open a window. I think the lack of sun and air has been causing light headedness in some of you. Open your minds, not your GURPS books.
GURPS fans: just because you believe it is the only system out there, doesn't make it so. You are not Kevin Costner. Long dead role-players will not come out of the corn fields to support your cause.
I like Legend of the Five Rings, but if you don't, I won't call you names. To each his own. I don't know why people play Palladium at all (I can smell the cheese fumes coming off that system a block away), but if you like it and have fun playing, go for it! You are smart enough, creative enough, and good enough to make that decision on your own. And gosh darn it, people like you! Now go hug your mom and tell her you love her.
Thank you!
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