[UA] I meant..

[Andrew]

    Ah, now the subject of this thread swerves thoroughly back on topic. How savoury.

Gregory Paul Stolze wrote:

> At 10:38 PM 12/08/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>
>  I rather like it, although I consdier a bit
> too neat for my >tastes.
>
> ???  I can think of lots of adjectives for systems that let people get
> their grubby little mitts on the hot buttons, but "neat" isn't one.  Or do
> you mean it seems too pat?

    Hm. Not really the system, (I love that, by the way, and look forward to the baffled expressions
on my PC's faces), but how, in overview, the cosmology comes across as being fairly simple. Take 332
archetypes, add one superman, shake and stir, bake briefly, remove one universe. Serve chilled or
hot. Repeat ad infinitum. It just seems so, well, unmysterious. Could I have been poisoned by White
Wolf and the X-Files? Do I need unnecessary, over-extended mystery in everything now? A "greater,
hidden truth"? Hm. Maybe.

    In point of fact, judging by the rest of the game, I suspect it is far from being this neat, but
I'm going on what I've read in PoMoMa, LG&$, and the core book.

    Has anyone else noticed just how totally, thoroughly incompetent Mulder and Scully are as F.B.I.
agents? Sure, for the first year or two, I can see how they might drop the ball once or twice, but
come on! How many alien bodies does a person need to lose before it starts to seem a little thin?

        -Andrew


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