re: John's stuff

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On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Rick Myers wrote:

> 
> >
> >That centralization is what makes it so valuable.  Instead of taking 
> 300 sites
> >with other world portals...now you take 1.  That just screams "Take 
> me!".
> 
> It also makes it tremendously difficulty to take.  How does one prepare 
> to take and hold the nexus when they don't know who or what on the other 
> side of any one of a number of portals might get thouroughly pissed off.  

-Hmmm...how about envelop.

> Any hostile force that takes the nexus as a military jumping off point 
> is going to face reprisal from within the nexus on a collosal scale.

-From what?  The inhabitants of red dirt?

> 
> I agree something needs to be done about it.  It should be something 
> better than one of the tired old "Dragon Gaurdian from the pits of Hell" 
> cliches, and the current solution of a small squad of T'orites isn't 
> going to cut it either.  I've been thinking about it, but I haven't come 
> up with any good, original ideas yet.  It has the potential to be 
> entertaining, but it won't be easy to do without coming out as cheese or 
> worse.
> 
> Brain hurts...must have...caffeine...  
> 
> Later,
> Rick
> 
> >And with something like the prize that the nexus offers, unlimited and 
> free
> >access to anyone through 1 point that you can control...you just gotta 
> do
> >it if you have the means.  The rewards are just too worth while.
> >
> >re: doing it piecemeal...I agree completely.  I can easily see it being
> >gimped by people dicking around with a whole series of adventures
> >that change big details on of the 'campaign'.  Or the sudden out of the
> >blue adventure is 'riding to the rescue' type thing. 
> >
> >It has a bit of potential to be quite cool, but it could also quite
> >thoroughly suck if the plan got made and then changed in the end on 
> someone's
> >whim.
> 
> 
> >
> >Wright
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >****************************************************************************
> >Repercussions?!?  Repercussions?!?  We are the Purdue Fantasy Club, we 
> don't
> >need any STEENKING REPERCUSSIONS!!!
> >
> >Why any moreso than before the nexus?  There aren't any MORE portals in 
> a
> >100 met area, they're just centralized.  Any big baddies wanting to 
> come
> >through from the other end end up in about the same location as pre 
> nexus,
> >save that they can't sneak up now ... there's only one door to watch :)
> >
> >As far as taking Lojem Isle to control the nexus, again, you would have 
> to
> >take/control the whole island to control all the portals on the island 
> (much
> >as before)
> >
> >Finally, yes, military occupation to take over the nexus would be a 
> neat
> >plotline ... and if a GM decided to pull it out of his ass on the fly
> >Saturday night he should be cudgeled.  Get a platoon of GM's going and 
> work
> >it like a plotline, not like a bunch of scattered 1 shots.  Do it 
> right, or
> >don't do it.
> >
> >John
> >****************************************************************************
> >
> >
> 
> 
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