			    TRAVELLER Digest 142

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Re: TRAVELLER digest 141
	by MSAMUELS@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU

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Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 20:19:36 -0500 (EST)
From: MSAMUELS@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Re: TRAVELLER digest 141
Message-ID: <01HL18OWX5LU97379U@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU>

Date: Sat, 24 Dec 94 17:53 GMT
From: nicklaw@cix.compulink.co.uk (Nicholas Law)
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Cc: nicklaw@cix.compulink.co.uk
Subject: Grav ball and other fun
Message-ID: <memo.633601@cix.compulink.co.uk>

> I remember reading about grav ball, but can't remember where
> (referencesplease!).

You might be thinking of my article and rules which were published 
as a supplement to the fanzine Starport, circa late 1991. In 
Starport 16 of that year, Kevin Parry wrote: *Grav Ball - This has 
been sent to Rob Prior and David Schneider [so] Nick Law can 
legitimately say that it is being played on three continents....*  

>>>>>>	Grav Ball was a board game published by FASA circa. 1988.  It featured
	a three dimensional playing field, armored players, and a two kilogram 
	steel shot for the ball.  It was an order of magnitude more violent 
     	than hockey, so an automated "riot-controll" bot was used to controll 
	outbursts.

	Players used electromagnets to accelerate themselves.  The heavy 
	armored goalie could hardly move, while the near defenceless forward
	could go from 0 to 55 in five seconds.  Ofcourse this guy tended to 
	take a beating at the hands of BIG defencemen.  The mortality rate 
	among forwards was alarming.
	

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