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Sunday, May 18, 2008

eBay auctions nonexistent PARANOIA product 

An inexplicable eBay auction for the never-published and nonexistent PARANOIA mission Spin Control prompted a Mongoose Publishing forum thread detailing the "Spin Control" publishing history. In brief: "Spin Control" has been published in Alpha Complex Nights but, to date, nowhere else. The product in the eBay auction doesn't exist and has never existed. So what does this seller think he has 990 copies of? No idea.
Posted by: Allen Varney / 10:42 AM

Comments:
Ha! It seems this is stirring up some good Paranoia sentiments.

Actually, it made me think of a session I once ran in which the characters were told that a copy of the rules were circulating about the sector. On purpose I'd left the rulebook openly in the middle of the table. This caused some delightfully fuzzy player/character boundaries. To the PCs the rules don't exist and have never existed, they just live their lives. At the same time, the players were only too eager to read the rules and only had their characters to somehow get their hands on them.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : May 19, 2008 8:49 AM
 
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