Post originally by Cynthia Celeste Miller at 2004-03-29 14:24:09
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Arcady,

I really appreciate yoir review of Omlevex. Very comprehensive. I'll respond point by point wherever necessary.

OMELET
Grrrrrrrr! ;0P

U.S. TERRITORY
In the review, you stated, "Another point of confusion for me was the listing of 1910 as the year that Metazon become a US Territory, but in the history before that only one of it's islands was ever said to have seceded from the US to begin with."

The rest of Metazon was not a part of the U.S. at all prior to 1910. At that point, it became an official territory. That includes West Metazon.

MAP CLARITY
We plan to post the colored map on the site as a PDF. As such, it will be a parmanent fixture.

MREs
Ermm... well, you see, Scratch brought MREs back from the future and... ummm... he thought it would be fun to introduce them during the '60s and....

Okay, okay, we screwed up. ;0)

GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS AND METAZON
In the review, you said, "The Metazon Islands are huge - larger than anything in the Caribbean - and where they exist would dramatically change the weather on the south east coast of the US."

Anyway, in the real world, yes. You're absolutely correct. However, the comic companies in the 1960s never even considered such things. And since we were emulating that approach, we didn't either.

Of course, as we release sourcebooks for the later eras (sales permitting), don't be surprised if we go a bit into that.

JONAH
For all you folks reading this review, heed Arcady's advice -- use Jonah with extreme caution. I know of players who literally cringe when I mention his name, though they're always anxious to play in an adventure that involves him.

OMLEVEX SYSTEMS
You stated, "The second entry is the designer's notes - the normal thing where we learn what drove this product and what care went into it. Of note here is that the campaign universe is 15 years old - having been used by the author for her games since 1989. What was missing here that I was personally curious about was what gaming system it was originally under."

I think a better question would've been "What gaming system WASN'T it under?"

Seriously though, we have used numerous systems for Omlevex over the years -- Marvel Superheroes, DC Heroes, Champions (4th edition), GURPS Supers, Marvel SAGA and even a homebrew system or two that we intended to publish.

I eventually settled with M&M, as it does everything I want a superhero RPG to do.