Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.misc 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) Article 15413 of rec.games.frp.misc: Path: teetot.acusd.edu!network.ucsd.edu!nntp.ucsb.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!nic.umass.edu!usenet From: [H--KS--A] at [UCSVAX.UCS.UMASS.EDU] (Hans M Dykstra) Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.misc Subject: Re: Alternate approaches to "Christian" role-playing. Date: 29 Oct 1993 17:38:00 GMT Organization: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS at AMHERST Lines: 32 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2arkdo$[5 g 8] at [nic.umass.edu]> References: <[1993 Oct 26 202028 10275] at [cnsvax.uwec.edu]> <[1993 Oct 27 210058 15704] at [oracle.us.oracle.com]> NNTP-Posting-Host: deimos.ucs.umass.edu X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24 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. --- hmd