Thread: Re: "Why a storyline at all?" (was Re: Since Dave...

Dear Folks -

Dave asked:
> I don't remember any TNE designer's notes. Did I write some? If so, where?

I reckon it's referring to your "Opinion" piece in _Challenge_ #77, the last magazine.

Entitled "Whither (NOT to be confused with "Wither") TravelIer?" and subtitled "An Editorial Excursion by Some Long-Winded GDW Guy", it consists of four whole pages (a lot of text, for a large-format magazine) of you responding to a letter and "answering its concerns" about "crucial, underlying principles of Traveller: The New Era".

(I liked it, BTW.)

Jim wrote:
>A lot of us were in HIWG, which was already under way when I stumbled into
>the GEnie community after seeing references from DGP. I became member
>#200, but I don't know how much further the membership expanded, since that
>number already included the most ardent.

I'm member #250, so it expanded a bit further. ;-)

>My own contributions under the HIWG umbrella were limited to one sector and
>bits of another.

You did a hellava lot more than me. I contributed Tavonni's 1201 stats to Mike Mikesh for inclusion in the Regency Sourcebook. Yes, the stats for Tavonni in the RSB are *mine*! MINE, I tell you (mwahahaha)!!! (my only claim to canonical fame ;-)

(Dave apologised YEARS ago - quite unnecessarily, as I told him - for not including my name in the book. I was just happy to have that one line of print. ;-)

HIWG's homepage is:
http://www.downport.com/hiwg/

Dave wrote:
> So iOS over Android between the two, but Surface is the right idea:
> full-functioning Win/Office in your hand. iOS/Android can't touch that.

I'm writing this on a Surface Pro. FWIW. YMMV. ;-)
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David "Hyphen" Jaques-Watson ..at.. Beowulf Down (Tavonni/Vilis/SM 1520)
http://www.tip.net.au/~davidjw
"I file things in historical order, with a hashing algorithm of gravity"

> I reckon it's referring to your "Opinion" piece in _Challenge_ #77, the
last magazine.
>
> Entitled "Whither (NOT to be confused with "Wither") TravelIer?" and
subtitled "An Editorial Excursion by Some Long-Winded GDW Guy", it
consists of four whole pages (a lot of text, for a large-format
magazine)
> of you responding to a letter and "answering its concerns" about
"crucial,
> underlying principles of Traveller: The New Era".
>
> (I liked it, BTW.)

Thanks.

Yeah, I found it while I was searching for "Designer's Notes."

It is actually reviewed as a separate TNE product (?) on rpg.net.

They rated it 0 out of 10, and this was the complete review: "How you're
wrong and Traveller: TNE is actually great."

Still making friends wherever I go.

> You did a hellava lot more than me. I contributed Tavonni's 1201 stats to
> Mike Mikesh for inclusion in the Regency Sourcebook. Yes, the stats for
Tavonni in the RSB are *mine*! MINE, I tell you (mwahahaha)!!! (my only
claim to canonical fame ;-)
>
> (Dave apologised YEARS ago - quite unnecessarily, as I told him - for not
> including my name in the book. I was just happy to have that one line of
print. ;-)

So did I get those stats from Mike at the time? I remember mostly working
with "Geo" who was the go-to "collapsing" guy.

> Dave wrote:
>> So iOS over Android between the two, but Surface is the right idea:
full-functioning Win/Office in your hand. iOS/Android can't touch that.
>
> I'm writing this on a Surface Pro. FWIW. YMMV. ;-)

See? QED.

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David "Hyphen" Jaques-Watson ..at.. Beowulf Down (Tavonni/Vilis/SM 1520)
http://www.tip.net.au/~davidjw "I
file things in historical order, with a hashing algorithm of gravity"
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