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Old 10-31-2010, 04:38 AM   #32
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Default Re: [Space] GURPS Handbook of the Planets

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Originally Posted by ciaran_skye View Post
I tend to use "plot-generated" systems, i.e. whatever the plot demands, but mostly due to a lack of time to generate large numbers of systems, investigate them for story-friendly features, then build a story around them.
Whereas this is precisely what works best for me. I've found I'm quite good at looking at a large sample of random data and building settings and stories by free association of suitable samples (the massive UPP lists in the several Traveller incarnations, which in the beginning I considered a waste of space, turned out to be one of the most useful parts of the books for me). The HotP is perfect for that.

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