Re: Ge´Neva

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:14:37 +0100, David Shepheard
<david_shepheard@???????.com> wrote:
>* The Order live on a moon (called Borden), which orbits the neutral world
(called
>Ge'Neva*),

...

>* = The one thing I don't like about this sphere is the poor quality joke
of having the
>neutral world named after the capital of the neutral country in the real
world. Anne Brown
>(the editor) should have asked J Paul LaFountain (the author) to change
this name because
>the silly joke spoils the suspension of disbelief in an otherwise *very*
good adventure.

i believe that "ge´neva was meant as a reference to LAKE Geneva, Wisconsin -
 "the hometown of dnd", where TSR´s headquarter is.

and i agree that this is a poor joke; it´s not very beneficial to the
suspension of disbelief when realworld- things start creeping in. i also
don´t really like the concept of herospace, i don´t think that i would
introduce it into _my_ game. at least not as a world the heros would
actually visit; as a source of rumor and legend, it´s ok.

the first time i read about it, i had the feeling that the whole idea
behind herospace (without a capital S, *grin*) was somehow "not authentic",
not believable. i cannot really specify what exactly i don´t like (apart
from GE´Neva), but i _know_ that it wouldn´t be well received by my
players... besides: there are more than enough worlds (spheres and
locations) out there to fill the SJ universe- reasojn enough for me to
ignore what i don´t like! :o) i´d rather populate the known spheres with
all the moons of the month and in exchange cut out herospace; i think that
would be a great tradeoff! in fact swapping only _one_ motm with herospace
is something i would deem an improvement in quality. :o)

tauster