[BRIEF NOTE] CFTAG After-Report

[rfmcdonald]

schizmatic's presence anchored a productive three-hour meeting that included, in addition to myself, larkvi, pauldrye and M.

pauldrye brought his complimentary copy of GURPS Traveller- Interstellar Wars for everyone to be rightfully impressed by. It must be fun to add so much interesting stuff to the canon of such a well-established universe. If ever I gamemaster, I'm certain to mine this book for ideas.

Apart from Interstellar Wars, the main theme of the meeting's discussions seemed to focus on how some of the biggest science-fiction franchises (Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, Battletech, even Battlestar Galactica to an extent) worked only as set-pieces, that as coherent worlds they tended to fail for a variety of reasons, not least of which is a surfeit of writers.