A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Termination Booth

[Sedric the Hero]

which 'flavor' of Paranoia is this book for? Troubleshooters? Internal Security?

 

[Mongoose Gar]

Primarily Troubleshooters, although easily adaptable to IntSec.

 

[Arkku]

Primarily Troubleshooters, although easily adaptable to IntSec.

If it's primarily troubleshooters, why does it say “For use with Internal Security” on the back cover? Why is the cover blue?

And, yes, reading inside the book, the pre-generated player characters are troubleshooters, not internal security like the cover explicitly says.

 

[Kurgan]

This also begs the question, is the color-coding of the modules intentional? I hadn't caught-on to that yet, but it does appear that way now that it's been pointed out.

So, Blue=IntSec, Red=Troubleshooters, and Colorless (White)=High Programmers, right?

I dunno. It's a cute idea (especially if they did an UltraViolet cover!), but I really miss Jim Holloway's artwork. It's just not Paranoia without Jim's covers. I don't understand why it's considered too much of an expense. Marketing studies (specifically ones regarding roleplaying games) have overwhelmingly shown that an attractive cover helps sales immensely over ones with ugly or no artwork. Heck, they still do pretty covers for Signs & Portents, even, and that's a free product.

 

[Mytholder]

S&P reuses art from other books for its covers, so there's no added expense there. Otherwise, I entirely agree with you.