For me at least, it wasn't *actually* the 'killing'.

It was the way that everyone immediately, virtually instantaneously, seemed to go quite literally insane.

The chronolog seemed to turn into a litany of, "Bet you thought <name> was going to act rationally!  HAH!  FOOLED YOU AGAIN! Look what we've had him/her/it do now? Forget about anything going right, from now on, in the end, it all winds up a disaster!" 

It was as if the stereotypical 'GM-from-Hell' had taken over.

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On Friday, April 5, 2019, 2:00:37 PM MST, Catherine Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:


Can you explain why killing Strephon was a deal-breaker? Monarchs get killed all the time. And big events open up story possibilities. 

On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 1:37 PM Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
On Thursday, April 4, 2019, 5:19:15 PM MST, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:


On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 6:37 PM Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:
On 4/4/2019 5:56 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
> IMO, MT was the 1st mistake while TNE was 'merely' the compounding
> fatal one.

GDW lost me when they killed Strephon and didn't get me back until GURPS Traveller said it was all a [TV "Dallas"] bad dream.
 
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In retrospect, I should've bailed at that time too, but I kept hanging on, hoping that GDW wouldn't keep 'doubling down' on their mistakes.

Nobody is happier than I am that SJG's TNS 'timeline' has now been incorporated into MM's company.

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