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From: [s--el--s] at [prodhp.us.oracle.com] (Stephan Zielinski)
Subject: Alternate approaches to "Christian" role-playing.
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 21:00:58 GMT

Oh, come now.  You can have MUCH MORE fun than that with "Christian"
characters.  I really shouldn't leak this so soon... but I'm heading
up a consortium of Jewish and Christian role players to produce games
to fill this particular niche in the market.

For those of you who miss Fortress: America, we have Fortress: Rome!
Scuttle through the catacombs... try to break your brethen out of the
Coliseum... use the secret sigil of the fish to recognize your
coreligionists... But be careful!  Spies are everywhere!  And the
lions are never full...

That should get you right in the mood for Twilight: 1200.  Trapped
behind enemy lines in the Holy Land, you and your brave companions
must fight your way back to Europe!  Special rules for genital
automutilation so as to pass as a Moslem!  We plan on expanding the
product line, too-- watch for our first supplement: The Children's
Crusade!  Will your character starve, be sold into slavery, or bake
into dust in the desert sun?!?!

Throw away your Paranoia books!  Welcome to Salem Complex!  Witches
are everywhere!  Keep your pin handy!  Trust the Inquisitor!  Have you
seen evidence of witchcraft today, friend Goodwife?  You have?  Why
did you not report it immediately? . . .

Maybe you're sick of having Cthulhu turn your brains to tapioca.  A
giant squid-headed alien is scary, yeah, but it's lacking that
down-home gut-wrenching feel.  Search no more!  Do you dare answer...
the Call of Tammy Faye Bakker???

We're working on cyberpunk lines, too.  So far we've got terrific
rules for removing large chunks of your brain and replacing them with
straw, but we seem to have blocked there.

-- 
Stephan Zielinski                         szielins%[d v lpyr] at [us.oracle.com]
  "The English language, complete with irony, satire, and sarcasm, has
  survived for centuries wihout smileys.  Only the new crop of modern
  computer geeks finds it impossible to detect a joke that is not
  Clearly Labelled as such."
                  -- Ray Shea (on rec.music.misc)


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From: [H--KS--A] at [UCSVAX.UCS.UMASS.EDU] (Hans M Dykstra)
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Subject: Re: Alternate approaches to "Christian" role-playing.
Date: 29 Oct 1993 17:38:00 GMT
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In-Reply-To: [s--el--s] at [prodhp.us.oracle.com]'s message of Wed, 27 Oct 1993 21:00:58 GMT

In <[1993 Oct 27 210058 15704] at [oracle.us.oracle.com]> 
    [s--el--s] at [prodhp.us.oracle.com] writes:

> In article <[1993 Oct 26 202028 10275] at [cnsvax.uwec.edu]> [b--e--l] at [cnsvax.uwec.edu] writes:
> >Well, what a Christian these days is seems to be rather ambiguous.  I consider
> >myself to be a Christian and to do my best to follow the commands of Jesus of
> >Nazareth.  Anyway, some suggestions for a Christian role-playing game:
 [deleted]
> Oh, come now.  You can have MUCH MORE fun than that with "Christian"
> characters.  I really shouldn't leak this so soon... but I'm heading
> up a consortium of Jewish and Christian role players to produce games
> to fill this particular niche in the market.
> 
 [Fortress: Rome]
> 
 [Twilight 1200]
> 
 [Salem Complex]
> 
 [Call of Tammy Faye]
> 
 [CyberWitness]
> 
If I write Pogrom: the Cleansing would you publish it?  Lot's of
good fun rooting out evil Christkillers who threaten the Christian
purity of the countryside.  Enrage the peasants!  Lead mobs!  Burn
houses, kill their evil breeders, stop the spread of their horrid,
deceitful ways!

Loads of laughs for the whole family.
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hmd