Sky Princes Of Orion

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Originally Posted by The Tatterdemalion King

... did Tellar have a 'thing'? I mean, we know their personalities, but did Tellarites have an underlying 'theme' to them the same way the Andorians seemed to?

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Well, only the core designers could really tell you that ... Apart from Ross Isaacs telling me "The Tellarites are our Dwarves," at one point, I wasn't privy to the core design decisions, all of which predated my involvement by a year or more.

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I've always been interested in the creative decisions behind the LUG version, because of design choices like the ones they took with the 'core federation members.'

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I know what you mean; I'm the same way. It's why I'm a sucker for Designer's Notes articles; I wish they hadn't fallen out of fashion. :/

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Originally Posted by Sjohn

So, expect that within a matter of weeks at most, or days if I can manage it.

I may also publish the one semi-solid scrap of my own LUG work that isn't on the site yet, because it actually predates my public involvement with LUG. In an odd bit of irony, I was actually the original writer assigned both Andoria and Tellar in "Planets of the UFP," but I had to bow out due to other work. I recently ran across my original (incomplete) drafts, including a readable fragment of my take on Tellar.

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That would be cool to read, especially after some of the discussions we had a few years back about Andorians.

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Originally Posted by Capt. K. Vaughn

That would be cool to read, especially after some of the discussions we had a few years back about Andorians.

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If it were cool to read, I would have posted it years ago. :) Honestly, it's nothing much at all ... I just found it while rummaging for the Sky Princes stuff, so I figure what-the-heck-let's-be-a-completist.

It's not of much interest in terms of LUG canon, either, since it's unrelated to any LUG material except the original Tellarite thumbnail description from the TNG core.

As "missing" material goes, it's about as thrilling as a "special extended episode" extended by 2.4 seconds because the camera lingers on someone scratching their nose.

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Originally Posted by tonyg

Cool. New stuff. Or at leas "new" to most of us. ::cool:


And it's nice to see Sjohn posting again. :) :)

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I agree and wholehardly concur. ;) :D :cool: :)

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Originally Posted by Sjohn

If it were cool to read, I would have posted it years ago. :) Honestly, it's nothing much at all ... I just found it while rummaging for the Sky Princes stuff, so I figure what-the-heck-let's-be-a-completist.

It's not of much interest in terms of LUG canon, either, since it's unrelated to any LUG material except the original Tellarite thumbnail description from the TNG core.

As "missing" material goes, it's about as thrilling as a "special extended episode" extended by 2.4 seconds because the camera lingers on someone scratching their nose.

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One never knows what little tidbit another might find inspirational... :)

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Originally Posted by Sjohn

I know what you mean; I'm the same way. It's why I'm a sucker for Designer's Notes articles; I wish they hadn't fallen out of fashion. :/

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Amen.

As a GM, I found it much easier to run something or interpret a rule when I had a clue as to what the designer had in mind rather than just the game mechanics. I recall one topic on here a long time back when Don Mappin and myself completely disagreed about a rule, but we both made our decisions for essentially the same reason. He had used rule A to prevent situation X, while my style of GMing prevented situation X in another way, so I eliminated rule A--or vice versa. We both had the same end goal in mind, but just choose different methods of achieving it. Once we understood what they other guy was trying to do, and how, we ended up in agreement.

Knowing why a certain rule exists really helps in deciding if it is something that can be dropped or modified, and what problems might arise from doing so.

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Originally Posted by tonyg

Knowing why a certain rule exists really helps in deciding if it is something that can be dropped or modified, and what problems might arise from doing so.

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Absolutely, or as I like to put it: "Motive is half the crime." :)

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Originally Posted by Sjohn

Absolutely, or as I like to put it: "Motive is half the crime." :)

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Inexplicably, the other half is some sort of pan-cake.

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Originally Posted by The Tatterdemalion King

Inexplicably, the other half is some sort of pan-cake.

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Only if they are hot-cakes, although that would most likely be the work of a cereal killer. :D

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Originally Posted by Sjohn

If it were cool to read, I would have posted it years ago. :) Honestly, it's nothing much at all ... I just found it while rummaging for the Sky Princes stuff, so I figure what-the-heck-let's-be-a-completist.

It's not of much interest in terms of LUG canon, either, since it's unrelated to any LUG material except the original Tellarite thumbnail description from the TNG core.

As "missing" material goes, it's about as thrilling as a "special extended episode" extended by 2.4 seconds because the camera lingers on someone scratching their nose.

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So... any news?

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Originally Posted by The Tatterdemalion King

So... any news?

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Not yet, alas. Soon, though. Digging myself out of some of the map-work for Medieval France.

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Originally Posted by Sjohn

Not yet, alas. Soon, though. Digging myself out of some of the map-work for Medieval France.

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The map is not the territory–UNTIL YOU FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD!

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Originally Posted by The Tatterdemalion King

The map is not the territory–UNTIL YOU FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD!

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Does he enjoy manually pasting in accented letters in Illustrator? Because if he does, and works cheap, he's got a job :)

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Originally Posted by Sjohn

Because if he does, and works cheap, he's got a job :)

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Maybe he doesn't, but I do. : d

Wow! S. John's back!

*Queeg waves*

How go the Fire Eaters? I am/was one, once upon a time. Kinda fell out of the loop a couple years back! :eek:

Cheers,

LQ