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Old 06-24-2012, 01:12 PM   #91
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Nearly a decade, yup.
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Suddenly, I feel old :/

It doesn't seem like it's been more than 15 years already.
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Old 06-24-2012, 04:52 PM   #92
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Or obversely, the expansive approach to canon leads away from clarification.
If you feel less clarified, you can simply disregard it.

I would much rather have more points of clarification posted on a board than less that are gathered in one convenient place. Especially since we already have the latter and the former is just an additional perk of these forums.
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Old 06-25-2012, 06:37 AM   #93
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If you feel less clarified, you can simply disregard it.
Gaming is a social hobby. Some level of shared comprehension is implied and necessary.
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Old 06-25-2012, 06:45 AM   #94
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Gaming is a social hobby. Some level of shared comprehension is implied and necessary.
That's an issue between you, and your gaming group. Every table has to agree on the rules being used, and what is or isn't "official" is only a part of that equation.
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Old 06-25-2012, 08:48 AM   #95
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That's an issue between you, and your gaming group. Every table has to agree on the rules being used, and what is or isn't "official" is only a part of that equation.
Gaming groups are neither static nor sealed.

And to go back a step, the perifery of confusion/clarification is not necessary easily deliminated.
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Old 06-25-2012, 08:59 AM   #96
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Gaming groups are neither static nor sealed.
True, (at least sometimes) however you still need to lay out the rules that are in effect. Whether they are House Rules, interpretations of RAW, or just which switches and optional rules are in play.
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Old 06-25-2012, 09:20 AM   #97
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Gaming groups are neither static nor sealed.

And to go back a step, the perifery of confusion/clarification is not necessary easily deliminated.
Gaming groups are neither static nor sealed, yes. You do really have to keep talking to your players, they aren't just push-button dispensers of game-decisions. A game can evolve from the parameters set out at the start to a completely different set of options and rulings by the time it ends - and that's OK. New people coming into a gaming group need to be briefed anyways, so the lack of a static sealed nature doesn't seem to be an issue to me. You still need to let them in on what's going on.
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Old 06-25-2012, 10:11 AM   #98
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Nearly a decade, yup.
That's right. In essence, GURPS Compendium I compiled everything up to the point when I was hired. It covered "up to 1995" (the 1996 copyright date is associated with the book's release, not with the start of what was a long compiling job!). Significant new content continued to appear regularly between 1995 and 2002, and there were also a few releases between 2002 and 2004, even as we were working on Fourth Edition. All of that came too late to be included in Compendium I, which at best covered the first half of the Third Edition run. Some of the strongest influences on Fourth Edition cannot be found in either Compendium volume, but only in the late 1990s and early 2000s releases, several of which rapidly went out of print.



Compendium I absolutely did live up to its advertising. It included everything we could find up to the production date. GURPS has always had a clear and open policy of (1) using line-inclusive terms like "everything" in a time-qualified fashion, and (2) giving books with later release dates precedence over earlier releases. We're pretty open about the system being a constant work in progress, and expecting customers to read the date on the title page. We're not into "hermetic" or "static" around here. Games who like graven-in-stone rules would be better off with a system that has "official" products and a legalistic stance on revisions. We truly dislike that way of doing business, though.
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I thought the Compendiums were an excellent purchase. It was only confusion around timeframes that made me think it had missed something. My mistake.
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