Goodman Games

He beat me to it and as ever was 100% correct. He really is the Third Man of Etherscope.

Cynic :wink: Its more a case of not developing Palladiumitis and announcing vapourware. We are working on new material and discussing how/when it may be releaseable. Lots of factors have to be taken into account other than what we'd like to do ,and so prefer not to get peoples' hopes up too much but...

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Yes we are working on stuff again although at this stage it's too early to make any official announcements!

Money and wealth are a bit different in Etherscope due to their link to social status and the lack of social/financial mobility. If you want to use wealth as a reward use a wealth bonus that can used once for single purchase or split across several, depending on how much you award, but which disappe...

That tech level isn't something we envisioned for the world but go for it, some great roleplaying opportunities. I was a big fan of Grant Morrisons take on how Robot Man's sense of self and his humanity was affected by such a process in Doom Patrol. Be good as a Eugenics League unique experiment, pl...

Cool, enjoy, I truely believe we created something fairly unique and look forward to hearing your thoughts on the game.

The default placement is on the back of the neck, both as a homage to the matrix and metaphysically to represent the juncture between the mind and body. Its a pretty intrusive peice of cybernaughtics so finger ports are out but as with most cyber games if you like and its cool go for it. Etherpunk i...

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maded wrote:It's basically a portable music player if I remember rightly.

They also may come with headphones at a higher price.

Think iPod of Victorian cyberpunk

Exactly

Its quite a natural fit, I thought about it a while back but thats designers for you

Merely pining for the fjords We're always going to support people playing Etherscope as best we can, there's a good community and as for new products-we'll you never know

This is a classic genre intro, really like it.

Think Victorian bladrunner traffic and you've got Zepcars

Hi and welcome aboard. Looking forward to hearing how you find the game and now you post here I've even less reason to go to EN World which will save me some time. etherscope has been lucky to have a good community and I'm sure you'll find plenty of support/interest for your questions/ideas. Enjoy.

If anything Etherscope owes most d20 modern which, as much as i like 3.5, is a better system, though Etherscope created its own OGL identity for the reasons Ken stated and because the game needed it, though I'm sure most designers say that to justify their tinkering

Maded is pretty spot on as usual 8) The only thing he is wrong on is that avatars aren't stored constructs-you actually become your avatar when your enter the scope-its your actual mind/soul. Its worth noting that even though the regular scope cannot harm/kill you areas/things and programmes do exis...

Hi The point about the SBS existing and a lack of an SAS is a good one. Generally however, since warfare tends to follow early twentieth century patterns, the role/need of special forces hasn't really developed, except in relation to scope warfare. The US is the most likely to have a few as they exp...

I give you disruption weaponry I wish i had some money!

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Yes, the revisions are incorporated in the softback. Good luck on the jobhunt and every empathy for stupid things done while off face 0n <insert as applicable>

Nigel

Relations are good but international travel outside the upper classes and the more influencial members of the bourgoises is pretty non existant, rember identity is very much imperially based and the powers that be dont like cultural ideas spreading uncontrolled, thus the power, influence and attempt...

To be honest Irish nationalism, like most other nationalisms is dead the empire, its social rather than religious differences that are the source of resistence and revolution, the NRM being a great exampole of this. Hope this helps.

Nigel

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Enjoy

I'd put in standard difficulty DC,s chart, attitude adjustment chart, save calculations for death/dying/recovery and status, eg dazed, stunned etc, effects (always looking for those in DMG when playing Ebberon ) Be great to see as a resource.

Hey, you should see us over canon when books are being put together, pretty sure we've given Luke an ulcer :twisted: Some of our writers have really helped to expand the universe significantly, there's a reason we call David Schwartz 'the third man' and I'm pretty convinced Chris Durham is a gamma :...

As regards metaplot I'm firmly of the belief its optional and if people want to form their own then go for it. Myself and Ben do have a metaplot devised and planned out taking the timeline to the millenium, it kicks of with a big event that sheds light on a couple of mysteries, and look forward to g...