Heya :)

>I hope you are including some material on the 1939 San Francisco
>Golden Gate International Exposition.

I'm _slightly_ wounded at the notion that there'd be any worry that I'd somehow
manage to overlook the Expo :)

I've got quite a nice collection of memorabilia from it, in fact (guidebooks,
folding maps, a ticket, etc). I've got more yellowing, dusty paper from 1930s SF
than I have comic books nowadays ...

>PS I am really looking forward to Fly From Evil - to use as a
>sourcebook for Risus adventures! :)

There are quite a few ways in which FFE uses "Risus-Think" in its systems ...
and then quite a few ways in which it doesn't. I strongly suspect it'll be one
of those games where most gamers ditch the system and just uses the resource
material ...

But that's cool. The resource material is at least 80% of the book (a percentage
that increases every time I work on it) and my days as a GURPS writer prepared
me for that kind of thing, anyway. Half the fan-mail on a book like GURPS Russia
(for example) begins with "I don't really do GURPS, _but_ ..." :)

It has been my semi-vague hope, even, that I might be able to offer the resource
material, sans system, as an alternate version ... But that's a hope that's
growing a dimmer as the resource chapters fill out. I tried to artificially
censor myself from making _any_ references to the rules in the resource
chapters, and in some sections it was easy (when glossing past the daily routine
of Italian fishermen, I don't have any "Fish Availability Chart" or "Efficacy of
Blue Paint for Good Luck Subtable" I need to refer to or anything), and in some
sections it was just ... wrong (to do a section describing poisons common in
hardboiled pulp stories and then _not_ include at least a page reference to the
_rules_ for poisoning was something I agonized over for weeks before finally
allowing myself to re-re-re-re-learn the lesson most game designers must
re-re-re-re-learn about letting some parts of the wish-list step aside so that
others may thrive).




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