Re: GURPS Current conversions and a revision

On Sun, 11 May 1997, David Starner wrote:

> >sense.  (I really dislike Beholders.  They are so obviously an
> >artificial creature).  On a further note, I am doing an "evolution" of
> >the Illithid, both as an explaination of them, and as a GURPS
> >conversion.
>
> The average sphere has far more creatures than that. Not only that, why
> should elves, humans, and tinker gnomes be the only land races in space?
> Surely dwarves and all the other races would have gone too. (Tinker Gnomes
> make sense???) Scro are also a very good space race, in part as a
> replacement for all the humanoids the average party slaughters on land.
> On a side note, I frankly prefer diversity in my campaign and feel that it
> would exist where we have all these enormous number of spheres. To say the
> entire AD&D space universe only contains 5 creatures is pretty limiting.
> David Starner - deos@????.net
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I had forgotten about the scro completely. But I agree that you need more
than just five races, and for the beholders. I din't know they seem to be
so much more interested in doing away with themselves, that I don't mind
them much.