Feel free to Kabong this Talies. :)

On Tue, Sep 28/99, kim@... wrote:
> From: <kim@...>

> <Rumor alert!>
>
> What I heard was that Sierra canned the original concept of a
> low-magic, harsh death world in-line with the Tolkien books.
> And instead they're shooting for a high-magic lenient-death
> world - i.e. a UO/EQ/AC clone. This decision has supposedly
> led to the entire original design staff opting not to stay
> aboard.

Which was probably a smart move if they want a mass market game. How the
developers thought they could make a fun game with no pk switch and
permanent death for characters is beyond me. (well it might be fun for
the kinds of people who get their jollys killing miners in UO)

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