Post originally by Josh Harrison at 2004-02-02 19:18:00
Converted from Phorums BB System

Well, Attila, you're ceretainly entitled to your opinion.

Perhaps I was a bit forgiving of this volume, as it was the second book put out by the company.

The trouble you're looking at with this story in particular is that each game group (assuming they've been through <i>Prelude to War</i>) will have different connections, backgrounds, and relationships with the various NPCs and powers involved. There is no possible way you can cover every possible angle, so the approach is as generic as possible.

Sure, this requires the GM to work a bit more, tying into his own campaign, but you need to do the prep work anyway, so what's the harm?

The other thing you're dealing with here is an inexeperienced writing team; but I decided not to penalize them too harshly, or hold them up to a standard that they couldn't possibly meet (at the time they published this). The story is there, and since you're going to have to do a bunch of work anyway, modifying a few other details to suit your individual campaign doesn't seem too much of a hardship.

-- Josh H.