Well, mine are the 1st edition rules (which might be worth something today!) so the rest of the editions and developments that Wikipedia article mentions I didn't see at the time, but I'm pleased that it rode out the heavy weather and emerged in healthy condition, with its original authors, artists and contributors rejoining it. The new version hearkens back to my 1st edition in its choice of styles, 'Zap,' 'Classic' (meaning the 2nd edition) and 'Straight,' which “represents a relatively new style for Paranoia, although it is not entirely without precedent in the darker portions of the original 1st edition rules…” That is to say, Okay, take it as given. What would more mature players do with that Alpha Complex setting?
[Another way of seeing that is, “What if the 1976 film version of Logan's Run had been made as a serious, realistic story?” Despite enormous sentimental value, I've often wished it had been - where the City is basically running down, a point made in the original book. Call it “Soylent Run” - not a glittering Dallas shopping mall but 1970s New York, with equipment failures, gangs, graffiti, the recycled environment going sour - and the lid is getting harder to keep on, especially with rumors that the catastrophe-blasted Outside is clean now… But I digress. ]
This is all leaving your original post behind, so I'm glad you knew what I was talking about. Trust no one! Keep your laser handy!
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Date: 2013-11-06 07:07 pm (UTC)Well, mine are the 1st edition rules (which might be worth something today!) so the rest of the editions and developments that Wikipedia article mentions I didn't see at the time, but I'm pleased that it rode out the heavy weather and emerged in healthy condition, with its original authors, artists and contributors rejoining it. The new version hearkens back to my 1st edition in its choice of styles, 'Zap,' 'Classic' (meaning the 2nd edition) and 'Straight,' which “represents a relatively new style for Paranoia, although it is not entirely without precedent in the darker portions of the original 1st edition rules…” That is to say, Okay, take it as given. What would more mature players do with that Alpha Complex setting?
[Another way of seeing that is, “What if the 1976 film version of Logan's Run had been made as a serious, realistic story?” Despite enormous sentimental value, I've often wished it had been - where the City is basically running down, a point made in the original book. Call it “Soylent Run” - not a glittering Dallas shopping mall but 1970s New York, with equipment failures, gangs, graffiti, the recycled environment going sour - and the lid is getting harder to keep on, especially with rumors that the catastrophe-blasted Outside is clean now… But I digress. ]
This is all leaving your original post behind, so I'm glad you knew what I was talking about. Trust no one! Keep your laser handy!