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Old 07-19-2007, 01:47 AM
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Re: [RPG]: Sci-Fi Week: Universe (2nd edition), reviewed by Lev Lafayette (2/4)

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I suspect the plethora of subsystems, some of them a bit painful to work with didn't help; certainly the Delta-V space combat system was way too fiddly for an RPG (and this is from someone who likes moderately fiddly combat systems, but the one in Alternity was probably at the upper end of tolerance, the one in Universe was worse).
One of these days I'll get around to reviewing Alternity...

The thing that really frustrated me about Universe is that they gave a couple of pages of charts of Delta Vee, but with out any information on how to do ship-ship combat. That was just plain evil imo..
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