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Old 09-07-2015, 06:17 AM   #36
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Default Re: GURPS Starships line errata (and some observations)

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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth View Post
I think if Spaceships actually wanted to be about modeling arbitrary mostly-implausible paradigms, it very much needed to address that directly, at length and in detail.

What it did instead is give us a modular quasi-hard science system with some patches and toggles you can use for less-hard stuff.

I probably prefer the latter, really. But it seems like there's a lot of desire to make it out to be the former. And it's totally the wrong product for that.
Basically, you don't like the Spaceships line. Got it.
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