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Also read through my posts, any of my posts, and find one that can be taken seriously.  I don't take myself seriously, so why should anyone else?  Maybe I need to use more emoticons.

I guess you and I view humor a bit differently. I'm also not sure what the point would be of having no serious posts whatsoever. I mean, we've probably all had our hay-day of trolling at one time or another. Then I turned 20.

See, this is what makes me a sad panda. I'm actually interested to hear your thoughts on why you don't like it. As a tinker, I find those conversations interesting, because it gives me thoughts on various changes or tweaks. I look at it as a challenge. "Can I make a Dark Age X would enjoy?" My own statements about the 3rd Succession War, earlier in the thread, made me start thinking the same thing. Can I make an early BT AU that actually flips my lid? I guess I'd just rather stir up discussion, rather than controversy.

My apologizes to anyone whom I may have inadvertanly offended.  (I think that made grammatical sense).  I was trying, apparently without success, to add my usual tongue-firmly-implanted-in-cheek two cents to the discussion.  At least it was topical.  As the former unofficial semiprofessional master of thread drift over on S7 I could have gotten this thread way off topic.  KM knows, he and others used my services whenever CHIP or any of his incarnations appeared on that board.  Which reminds me of a time when I was a boy.  I was heading down to the 5 and dime to get a piece of rope to tie an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.  But before I could get there the Kaiser jumped out and stole my wallet.  I chased that Kaiser dickety-ought miles, we had to use dickety because the Kaiser had stolen our word for twenty.  Where was I?  Oh, yeah.  Like I said, I was heading to the 5 and dime to get a piece of rope to tie an onion to my belt, which was the style at the.... ahhh, poop nuggets.  I went and started the thread drift.  Now I've got to apologize again.

PS I know that OS missiles don't date from the DA.  I was just mentioning stuff off the top of my head.  Two kids, two jobs, no time, and no one locally that plays BT doesn't allow me to get into the ins and outs of BT like it did 10 or 15 years ago.  The King of the Thread Drift Trolls has spoken!  End transmission.

Not sure if you're into the PDF route (I suggest it, simply because it's cheaper, particularly for a book you may not find to your liking), but if you want some rather solid info on Terra and its history, JHS: Terra has a great section that presents a view into Terran life throughout history. Setting aside the Jihad information, I've found that section rather useful and eye-opening for ideas at various points in BT history. The idea that Terrans were not starting families until well in their 70's or later has some pretty interesting ramifications.

The last soucrebook I read was the original SLSB.

The most recent sourcebook you've read was published in 1988, or that is simply the one sourcebook that you've read most recently? If the former, I'm not even sure how you recognize anything about the game. It's had 24 years of evolution. I'm also a little amazed that you'd stick around with a community for a game that you haven't followed in 24 years. If the latter, what's the most recently published sourcebook you own and have read?

CestusRex,

I can understand how you could get a really warped perspective of the Jihad/Dark Age via internet hearsay, but I have to encourage you to actually try reading the source material before making such a strong judgement about it. 

Wizkids initial marketing of the whole setting was god awful, but when I actually got around to reading the novels and understanding what was actually supposed to be going on in universe, not just the mindless dribble they put in their sales bills, I realized that the Dark Age era actually resembled the Succession Wars era a lot more than it first seemed to, that the Republic wasn't the magical white hat it first appeared to be, and that in reality, the Dark Age was actually about as close as we'd ever come to my ideal setting - the Succession Wars with new tech. 

I strongly urge you to give the setting another go.  I think you might find that the Republic crumbles like the crooked house of cards it is and that things quickly get back to House beating on House just like it should be!

SLSB was just the one I read most recently, about 8 months ago.  I've read quite a few and have many in pdf form.  I read the first few DA novels, took one look at clicky-tech, and got out of the pool.

The novels do get better - "clicky-tech" doesn't but we have stats for a lot of the units now so we could play classic games in the DA period.

The WizKids game is dead, the future of the DA is Catalyst's as Knightmare said the last few source books for that were roaring reads.  I'm looking forward to what they do with it.

To honest lucho, we're not in the Dark Age yet. Right now we're just getting through the intermediate period between the end of the Jihad and the "Republic"-era. After the Republic era (which isn't super long) we hit the Dark Age. Something I'm hoping CGL breezes through so we can get to the good stuff circa 3150s and beyond.