Re: Official Spelljammer Website (www.spelljammer.org)

George,

"usurp Static's power"

"Who does he think he is anyway?"
"I am your King!"
"Well I didn't vote for you."

How can I usurp someone's power when he has no
legitimate authority over me (or anyone else) anyway?
Seriously, the only power he obviously has is that you
(and others of your persuasion) have given him.

"3rd Edition barely is (sic) a product?" Hmm that's an
interesting idea. Since I won't waste my time and
anyone elses trying to "defend" 3e from the Righteous
Legions of 2nd Edition AD&D Followers, I'd just like
to point out that at this point 3e is the ONLY D&D
product. 2nd Edition AD&D is no longer a product, as
it is no longer in (and here's the key word)
*production*. You may not understand or agree, but the
majority of the RPG community is moving on, and if
Spelljammer is left as a 2e compatible product -only-
it will fail to capture the interest of those old
(like me - 21 yrs thank you) and new (like my wife)
D&D fans alike.

George, I'm not going to get into a flame war with
you, despite your fairly obvious efforts to move the
discussion I've initiated towards that end. If you
want to argue with somebody, you'll have to find
someone else. I'm throwing a little chaos into the
stagnant pool here and trying to help the Spelljammer
setting evolve from a *dead* product to a living one.
If you don't agree with my efforts that's fine, but
let's have an *intellectual* discussion about it, not
a flamewar-based insulting one.

--Thayne

--- George LaValle <flamebringer@???????.com> wrote:
> >I recently perused the endorsed "official"
> Spelljammer
> >web site, and was very disappointed to find no work
> in
> >progress to converting the Spelljammer setting to
> the
> >excellent D&D3e system. How can this be?
> >
> >There is work going on elsewhere, by individuals
> and
> >groups to work on this conversion. Converted
> >statistics for creatures has even been posted on
> the
> >moderator's web site, plus skills, feats, etc.
> >
> >The web site is:
> >
> >http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/
> >
> >The web site uses a discussion group to work out
> the
> >conversion details. This group is lively and input
> is
> >readily accepted and discussed. No ideas are thrown
> >out and in 3 weeks I haven't even seen a wisp of a
> >flamewar. Go to www.yahoogroups.com and enter SJ3e
> in
> >the "search" box. Join the group if you'd like to
> read
> >about and/or contribute to the work being done on
> this
> >conversion.
> >
> >Shouldn't this kind of a site, powered by this kind
> of
> >a discussion group, be the official Spelljammer
> site?
> >There is a lot more substance to the SJ3e site than
> >the older, more "established" official Spelljammer
> >site. In addition, the site seems to care about the
> >conversion to 3e, whereas the official Spelljammer
> >site barely mentions that D&D3e is even a product.
>
> If you haven't noticed, 3rd edition barely is a
> product. The majority of
> subscribers won't be switching. However, we have all
> voted for the official
> Spelljammer fan site (on the authority of being the
> official setting list),
> and we chose Static's site. Compendium was thrown
> together to fit the
> requirements for an official site, and remains
> mainly empty due to lack of
> enthusiasm on the part of the fans.
>
> Since you lot seem to be willing to do the work,
> howsabout submitting the
> work you've done to the Council for consideration as
> 3e canon?
>
> You know, as opposed to trying to usurp Static's
> power?
>
> ~George Lavalle
>
> "Caelum videre iussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere
> vultus."
>
> He bid them look at the sky and lift their faces to
> the stars.
>
> ~Ovid.
>
>
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