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Old 06-07-2004, 01:00 AM
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[RPG]: Lightspeed, reviewed by Almafeta (5/5)

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10336.phtml

Shanya Almafeta's Summary:

I hope you saved room for dessert, because Lightspeed is SWEET.

Go to the full review for more information.
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Old 06-07-2004, 07:24 AM
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Lightspeed is lightyears ahead of its time

Post originally by Sternum at 2004-06-07 06:24:09
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Perhaps a bit of an overstatement, but it is fast, fun, and has all of the genre-bits that make SciFi fun.
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Old 06-07-2004, 06:17 PM
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Okay, I'll bite...

Post originally by Matthew Gabbert at 2004-06-07 17:17:04
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Sorry, I don't get it. In what way does the game having an alien species called "Heshians" have anything to do with racial hate speech? Seriously, what am I missing? Is this some derogatory slang term people are using that I've never heard before?

-- Matthew Gabbert
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Old 06-07-2004, 08:31 PM
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RE: Okay, I'll bite...

Post originally by Shanya Almafeta at 2004-06-07 19:31:14
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'Heshian' is a term for Haitian immigrants, used by people who prefer to see those people between the sights of a gun.
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Old 06-07-2004, 09:25 PM
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Obscurity

Post originally by Tim Moerke at 2004-06-07 20:25:59
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I hadn't heard of it either. I thought maybe you were referring to Hessians, or something. In any case, I doubt the author was familiar with this term and wouldn't read anything into it, myself.

Tim
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Old 06-08-2004, 12:07 PM
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RE: Obscurity

Post originally by Matthew Gabbert at 2004-06-08 11:07:48
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Hessians was my first thought, too, and I wondered why this would be an issue.

So some people actually pronounce Haitian (Hay-shun) as Heshian (Hesh-ee-an)? And this mispronunciation is somehow derogatory? Really?

Huh. Learn something new every day.

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Old 06-08-2004, 12:22 PM
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Presence Attacks

Post originally by The Fiendish Dr. Samsara at 2004-06-08 11:22:23
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I don’t know Fuzion, but I used to play a lot of HERO long ago and I don’t quite get the point about Presence attacks. Can you clarify the problem you have with them?
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Old 06-08-2004, 01:02 PM
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Sounds good

Post originally by the first and the last at 2004-06-08 12:02:55
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Yeah, there's nothing quite like good old-fashioned Star Wars/Star Trek sci-fi. And Lightspeed delivers cyber-punk too?!! System sounds fine, though it doesn't matter much to me, I've been doing this style of game with Rifts Phase World, so how could I complain?
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Old 06-08-2004, 05:27 PM
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Creatures?

Post originally by Dan Davenport at 2004-06-08 16:27:14
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Do those NPC writeups include various animals, or are they all individual personalities?

Great review!

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Old 06-08-2004, 06:32 PM
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RE: Creatures?

Post originally by Shanya Almafeta at 2004-06-08 17:32:02
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There's only a few listed that I can think of. One, there's the brain parasites (technically a 'race', but since they're so powerful, they're treated more like creatures), and a race of reptillian predators. Surprisingly, there's no rules for creatures for download at www.lightspeed-rpg.com.
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