" @tentaclesex: You get to play the board game much? "
Like most of the board games I buy, it mainly collects dust, but I did get to try it out. It plays like Cosmic Encounter (not surprising, as it was designed by the same people) with a hot injection of Dune flavor. It would have been great if FFG got their hands on it, because they make beautiful products.
There's huge potential here. I seem to remember a Dune MUD that was pretty good, you should see if it's still running, you might find some good ideas there.
I have the Avalon Hill bookshelf game, it's great.
I'm actually reading Chapterhouse right now, I never got around to it before. Good stuff!
You seem to have an excellent handle on what makes Dune tick, and man, it would be glorious to see all of those key elements incorporated into an MMO somehow.
The few, the proud, the online. FFXI was pretty awful in a lot of ways, but great in others. I got pretty deeply sucked in for a while, playing with a group of 4 all in the same room with laptops on a sofa. It was a blast, and we had a lot of good times. Having a solid group of friends to experience things with together is quite wonderful.
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