Ironnerd wrote on Sep 6
th, 2012 at 10:49am:
As for "Other Countries in the Region", that includes a LOT of territory. China, N. Korea, S. Korea, The Philippines, Micronesia, Taiwan, Russia, Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, and Malaysia - just to name a few. Every one of these places has a distinct culture and all view "Heroes" differently. That's a far larger scope than was intended for this book.
Well... I think what is being suggested to you Yps is really based on the role that you have introduced 88 as having. CHESS originates in the US in most campaigns, but if I'm writing a CHESS sourcebook (I'm not) about CHESS as a US based agency, then I'm probably going to mention a few threats just outside the borders and other areas of influence in my hemisphere simply because they are the type of agency that warrants this type of portrayal.
You are setting up a book with a strong title (
The Department) and modeling the agency on CHESS. But then we seem to be discounting that an agency of the magnitude of 88 (CHESS?) doesn't worry about things 'off the islands' (or that concerns from these areas aren't important enough to make it into the book about what the agency worries about).
I understand not wanting to spend as much time/devote as much space in the book in other non-Japanese areas (especially Russia, India, or other Asian areas more closely dealt with by European powers), but the places you just mentioned *would* in fact be reported on and concerned with by an agency the size that you are building 88 to be. In fact, I would say that most of the places you listed (except China and Russia)
would want to defer to 88's judgment and thus be supplying them with info on threats in their areas and praying for help much in the way I could see Cubans, Mexicans, and Hondurans relying on a western hemisphere CHESS.
Just saying.
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