>
> > > Why is Hero Wars clearly unsuitable for games set anywhere except
> the Hero
> > > Wars period?
> >
> > "The Hero Wars" are a collection of events that occur at, and cause,
> the end
> > of the Third Age. It would be like calling a set of time-generic
> rules
> > (allowing play in any period from the rise of Cro-Magnon Man until
> the End
> > of Man As We Know Him) "The American Revolution".
> In otherwords you're quibbling about the _name_ not the rulesset. The
> implication was that the RULES were unsuitable. I had wondered...
>
Well, that's what *I* understood his quibble to be...
RR