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Jamat, that's a fantastic character!

Now I just want to see her stats!

Ben

I'm pretty sure Jpseph has also said that is at the printers and on track to be there at Gencon.

Ben

Now you could try the other manoeurves as well, but the only other maneouvre you'd have a chance of pulling off at 1st level is Counter Punch (DC 25), and that's only if your Strength is at least 12 (+1 modifier), because it's mathematically impossible to get to 25 otherwise with your maximum of 4 ...

Mysteries looks awesome Upload: Etherpunk is one of the best game things I have seen in my 26 sme years of gaming and spot on close to the absolute best CP styled supplement.. nuff said nuff said indeed! Thanks. (and the general feeling on the team is that Mysteries is the best of the Etherscope su...

Hi folks, Nigel and I are really trying to get over to Gencon this year, but are being hindered by the crippling airfares to get across the pond in the high season of mid august. Is there anyone out there goping to Gencon who would be willing to let two 30-somethings kip in their rooms for as small ...

Whether to include a "space" element to the game was something we toyed arouind with for a while when creating Etherscope. In the end we decided againt it because we didn't want to be just a Space 1889 clone. Therefore it's not a direction we'll be looking to take Etherscope in, it's certa...

Now that sounds really warped...... WHEN DO WE GET IT....WHEN. Jamat Well, the release schedule says september. Generally publishers try to get as much as possible ready for GenCon (mid August), but I don't know whether MotO will manage this deadline or not. If they do I'd guess that you'd be looki...

malladin_ben wrote:

jamat wrote:So now I have it i want more ...... Whats next from the warped minds of you designers?

I don't think I can say yet, but "warped" is a good way of thinking about it .

So I guess I can talk about it now...

http://www.goodmangames.com/17624preview.php

Any questions...?

Ben

You have to remember that the soviet union is actually quite a nice place - generally fairly affluent if not politically powerful. It's based on a the idea that communism didn't work in our history due to the agricultural economy which makes the typical worker a farm labourer, but in the etherscope ...

the new talents ... are great Thanks, I can take personal pride in that :) So now I have it i want more ...... Whats next from the warped minds of you designers? I don't think I can say yet, but "warped" is a good way of thinking about it :). One question (take me out and hit me with a we...

yperiwn wrote:What's that?

Upload: Etherpunk (http://www.goodmangames.com/17622preview.php), the next Etherscope release.

Ben

Savant sounds good, or broker if you want to emphasise the community relations side of the job.

I'd also make them a Tradesman social template - essentially an undertakers is a shop, just not selling vegetables or hardware supplies.

Cheerio,

Ben

Fanboy3 in Manchester (UK) has signed copies of the core rulebook and The Great Metropolis, btw. Also, I spotted Upload: Etherpunk on RPGNow - no official announcement yet, though. I think on previous experience the turn about has been 2-3 weeks between PDF release and print copies making it into th...

Ralph the Dog wrote:How "exact" is the feeling during an Ether experience? For example, you have a shooting range for big game hunting, would the rifle have the same weight, trigger tension, and recoil as the genuine article?

If you programmed it that way then yes it would.

Ben

I've just received my authors' copies of TGM and have been paging through it again - it's great to see it in print. I've been able to read through much of the stuff not written by me in a different light - without the pressure of editorial duties and deadlines, etc. Anyway I was really struck by Pal...

Ralph the Dog wrote:Any way we can get a taste of the who, what, and where? Like some character bios?

not yet, but we'll be able to post something in advance of the event.

Ben

One thing about the Ether, you could "be" in a zombie movie or Indiana Jones...it's an infinite holodeck. One inspiration for Etherscope is Jeff Noon's novel, Vurt. Vurt is a drug which allows those who take it to enter a shared dream. One Vurt feather (as they are called) I particularly ...

I've just started running a game with one of my school roleplaying groups (the older ones - mainly being around 15 years old). The party is as follows: A fey program crafter with occult leanings An alpha martial artist (complete with paired butterfly swords) A street assassin (can't remember the rac...

While a tv series may be waiting in the wings, a comic would be possible now. You have plenty of backstory and access to writing/artistic talent. Perhaps, a webcomic published a page at a time - 2 or 3 times a week? Whenever I've looked into doing comics before artists have been quite reluctant to ...

Oh yes, the Russians are very much opposed to the use of Transgenics. I think they could even be a haven for fleeing transgenics, where they would be treated as equals.

Ben

Mostly now they are interbreeding, so they carry the name of their father. Their original surnames were probably assigned to them by the governments who "commissioned" them. In the great metropolis they were granted the confiscated properties of the rebels from teh 30s. I'd say they've bee...

Someone with charisma could preach to the transgenics that just because they were born different doesn't mean that they are lesser beings. "And if you follow me..I shall..etc..etc.?" And on the flip side of that coin, doesn't a transgenic species seem tailor made for hate groups to focus ...

yperiwn wrote:And who founds their research?

Research is largely funded by wealthy philanthropic individuals who believe in teh Laegue's goals. Whilst the league does make money from its reseach, there's certainly more going in than coming out.

Ben

How can a group be seen as humanitarian, if they're creating disposable people? If I create a race or a species which can think or feel but I see them as labor saving devices...how is that humanitarian? Their goal is to raise humanity above manual labour. They simply don't class transgenics as huma...

Malladin_Nigel wrote:Stay tuned, you'll be seeing who and why would do this quite soon in a forthcoming supplement, and it isn't anyone as humanistic as the EL.

Tsk, and there I was trying to keep coy

Ben