Your point about quiet reinforcement is excellent. Really, really excellent. That sounds like it would work beautifully — especially if the players mentioned it before you had to, because they’d absorbed it.

I think the trick to including these truly little details is to NOT be describing them all the time, or even part of the time. Once or twice mentioning that the paper has no corners is still too often, for my taste. You’d have to have some kind of contrived reason to mention it, and I can’t see it flowing with the story, dialogue, description, whatever.

Instead of describing them, make sure you include this things in visual aids. If all the paper in the verse have no corners, cut off the corners of all the character sheets, note paper, and any other item that might realistically have the corners chopped off.

If all your people’s buildings and rooms are circular, don’t mention that fact, outside of maybe the first game, just draw all the building and room maps circular. Plus, you can use a square building for “pay attention” type affect.

I think what makes the cornerless paper in BSG work effectively is that no one ever makes note of the fact that paper has no corners. If you want to use such details in a game, make sure you pick details that can be obvious without ever having to be commented on.

somniturne: Cute! Where did you learn about that? (Great artwork, BTW.)

It’d be a little strange, playing the Battlestar Galactica RPG, to have the GM remind us that the corners are all missing. Yeah, we know– why does he keep mentioning it? I mean, his description of the cell door is less detailed than the paper description– it must be a clue! (Long chase of the red herring follows…)

How they’re handling it (we call it “New Capricastan” — how many similarities to the war on terror can they throw in?), and how they led up to it, though — those really rankle.

I welcome different perspectives, and no worries on the tangent. I like chatting about sci-fi.

Totally. On. Drugs.

The fact that they were willing to do the New Caprica thing is one of the reasons I am BSG’s bitch.

Anyway… sorry for the tangent.

I actually really appreciated the fact that they weren’t afraid to take the show in a different direction. You can’t expect the entire surviving human race to put up with staying on a ship forever. It made pretty good sense to me.