By the way, TIM/BARDBEAR, you might want to check that out re: your recent
question. I will still answer the questions you asked, but that might shed
additional light, or permit you to say, "yeah, he sure does repeat himself
a lot." What's scary is that something that seems to me a fresh thought
months or years later is more like me going back to the neurons, writing a
query, and getting a "new report," but which is in fact identical to the
old one as the query is pulling the same data, but there is no warning,
"you've already run this report, look in the archive."
> Thanks. Yeah, I've seen that, that was the COTI command performance from
> 2004. Amazing how many of my words are still floating around out there.
>
> Whatever this guy was referring to came out while GDW was alive. We always
> put designer's notes in wargames, but I don't think we ever put them in
> RPGs, but I could be wrong.
>
> In retrospect, I think it would have been a good idea to put out some kind
> of designer's notes or intro to TNE to the effect, "Hey, old-time
> Traveller players. Here's why we did what we did, here were some of the
> possibilities we considered, and here's why we chose this one as the most
> fair and honest way to go."
>
> On the other hand, it is likely that I suggested that at the time but was
> told:
>
> 1. No, this is supposed to attract new players, so you can't wrap it in a
> conversation with old ones, and
>
> 2. No, that will look like an apology and will have the opposite intended
> result, let the work speak for itself.
>
> Those thoughts sound familiar, so may be what happened.
>
>> Sorry, it was Loren that wrote it and it was a cross-post...
>>
>> http://www.cgi101.com/~lkw/AskDave.txt
>>
>> --
>> Mario
>>
>> http://mario.silent-tower.org/
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:28 AM, <> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Could be. Are those linked anyplace?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>> > He may have been referring to the long series of posts that you wrote
>>> on
>>> > my
>>> > TNE-RCES mailing list years ago.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Mario
>>> >
>>> > http://mario.silent-tower.org/
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:40 AM, <> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> TNEers--
>>> >>
>>> >> I saw on a board over the weekend some guy said, "Nilsen wrote in
>>> his
>>> >> designer's notes that..."
>>> >>
>>> >> I don't remember any TNE designer's notes. Did I write some? If so,
>>> >> where?
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks,
>>> >>
>>> >> Dave
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
question. I will still answer the questions you asked, but that might shed
additional light, or permit you to say, "yeah, he sure does repeat himself
a lot." What's scary is that something that seems to me a fresh thought
months or years later is more like me going back to the neurons, writing a
query, and getting a "new report," but which is in fact identical to the
old one as the query is pulling the same data, but there is no warning,
"you've already run this report, look in the archive."
> Thanks. Yeah, I've seen that, that was the COTI command performance from
> 2004. Amazing how many of my words are still floating around out there.
>
> Whatever this guy was referring to came out while GDW was alive. We always
> put designer's notes in wargames, but I don't think we ever put them in
> RPGs, but I could be wrong.
>
> In retrospect, I think it would have been a good idea to put out some kind
> of designer's notes or intro to TNE to the effect, "Hey, old-time
> Traveller players. Here's why we did what we did, here were some of the
> possibilities we considered, and here's why we chose this one as the most
> fair and honest way to go."
>
> On the other hand, it is likely that I suggested that at the time but was
> told:
>
> 1. No, this is supposed to attract new players, so you can't wrap it in a
> conversation with old ones, and
>
> 2. No, that will look like an apology and will have the opposite intended
> result, let the work speak for itself.
>
> Those thoughts sound familiar, so may be what happened.
>
>> Sorry, it was Loren that wrote it and it was a cross-post...
>>
>> http://www.cgi101.com/~lkw/AskDave.txt
>>
>> --
>> Mario
>>
>> http://mario.silent-tower.org/
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:28 AM, <> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Could be. Are those linked anyplace?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>> > He may have been referring to the long series of posts that you wrote
>>> on
>>> > my
>>> > TNE-RCES mailing list years ago.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Mario
>>> >
>>> > http://mario.silent-tower.org/
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:40 AM, <> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> TNEers--
>>> >>
>>> >> I saw on a board over the weekend some guy said, "Nilsen wrote in
>>> his
>>> >> designer's notes that..."
>>> >>
>>> >> I don't remember any TNE designer's notes. Did I write some? If so,
>>> >> where?
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks,
>>> >>
>>> >> Dave
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>