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Re: [RPG]: Starblazer Adventures, reviewed by Mike Fischer (5/5)

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Originally Posted by smascrns View Post
Rel Fexive, I perfectly understood that the reviewer ment introduction to playing role-playing games. IMO a 632 game book that's comprehensive and complete is not an introduction. It's the full product. An introduction is something between some tens and 100 pages. After reading and playing that the prospective player may make up his mind and decide if he is into rpgs or not. If he is, then he buys the 632 book. That's why I think it is disengenious to try to present the Starblazer book as an introduction book. (Note this says nothing about the quality of the game or about the way it is being promoted by the people behind it.)
Hmmm... this may be a clash between different interpretations of the use of 'introduction', then. One's first game, whatever the size, is an introduction; but so is a twenty page quickstart PDF. Besides, I think most people's introduction is playing rather than buying-and-reading an RPG, and the review seems to be about the "introduction to playing" aspect. Heh. Aspect. Hehheh.
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