Re: [Zen Elves?]

On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Adam Miller wrote:

> > Actually, I suspect it was "borrowed" (read:  stolen outright) from
> > Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.  In the _Apocraphya Now_ supplement, it
> > describes elves as engaging in something called the bran wa shin, where
> > they review all of their memories and discard the ones they don't want (it
> > helps a near-immortal race cope with the finite amount of memory storage
> > they have).  Since the White Dwarf article which got reprinted in AN
> > predates the CBoElves *and* Drizzit do'Urden by several years, I find the
> > coincidence suspect.
> >
>         Like Warhammer is any better...they copied passages from the Bible!:)
> And put them in their Undead supplement, no less!;p

Well, I can't vouch for the current Warhammer supplements.  The only thing
I pay attention to is Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, which doesn't have a lot
in common with the current Warhammer miniatures game.

Of course, it's not as if *any* game has managed to avoid ripping
*something* off...

Richard Gant
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Richard Gant's Gaming Ghetto:
     http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dunes/4656/
The Returners Final Fantasy Role-Playing Game Site:
     http://returners.simplenet.com/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------