Re: Clusterspace

Seeing "Cluster"-space just made me think of my army days.  Man, was AC
ever a clusterf--k.

Honestly, I think it takes a whole lot more than a little tweaking to
fix but I think it can be done (first, throw out the "themes"/plots).
One of AC's biggest problems was it tried to be bigger and better in
every way.  Larger ships, larger plots, faster ships, larger empires,
larger evil, and on, and on, and on.  Anyway, you'll have to pull out
your copy, compare it to my document, and see if it really does turn AC
into something usable (and maybe even useful).

What's really sad is that in all that they actually put a nice ship
(lanceship) and some interesting tech items that you might want to
salvage for use elsewhere if you've already wasted the money on the
set.

--- Night_Druid <Night_Druid@??????????.net> wrote:

> > The Astromundi Cluster boxed set is a massive mess in too many ways
> to
> > count.  It also had some potential and interesting ideas, however.
> So
> > rather than throw everything but the map out, I've tried to point
> out
> > many of its worst flaws and suggest ways to make them work (often
> that
> > simply meant, ignore this, cut this).  The author proves in many
> places
> > they don't even understand SJ mechanics let alone have a good grasp
> on
> > many other features of the game.  Honestly, I think parts of it
> were
> > written at different times with every time someone talked to the
> author
> > to explain SJ and/or what was desired in the boxed set them coming
> away
> > with an altered vision and writing the new stuff to that.  And then
> > editing did a [typical for TSR] absolutely pathetic job.
>
>
>     Astromundi Cluster has the single distinction of being the only
> product
> I ever returned (got another copy a few years later).
>
>     I think the "author not knowing SJ physics" shows particularly in
> the
> ship department.  I've never quite understood how the tradesman is
> supposed
> to work, and the crystal citadels are just silly (not in a haha way,
> more
> like "shake your head" silly).
>
>     The stronger points of AC is the setting itself, although I think
> the
> author was trying too hard.  Too much information was repeated in
> three
> different formats across three different books.  With a little
> tweeking and
> AC could really shine.  <shrug> Hindsight is 20/20, I guess ;)
>
> Adam
>
> Look for my coming on the seventh month of the fifth year.  At dawn
> look to
> the world were the Trio (plus one) that is Untouchable reigns supreme
>
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