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["David Michael Grouchy II" <david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com>]

> > From: David Michael Grouchy II
> >     Now for my dark little confession.  I have written
> > eleven different roleplaying games.

> From: Michael Taylor <MichaelTaylor1@compuserve.com>
>
> How many of these did you publish? Do you still have any interest in
> publishing them?

Michael,
    None.  I've just played them.  We had fun with them.  Despite that I 
really didn't think they were done well enough, or original enough, to 
publish.  I have toyed with the idea of publishing them.  I did some work to 
collect them all under one time jumping campaign.  That way when the 
characters jump into a different time they would find a fully fleshed 
campaign running.  Here is a list of the original games reorganized into 
consecutive ages of time.

    Age of creation
    God kings
    Ancients
    Holy Avenger
    Renaisance Colony
    Against the Drug lords
    Building a new civilization
    Space Epic
    Realityscape
    Super Heros vs. Super Races
    The edges of time

    Each campaign has a mechanisim I call the "campaign mechanism".  
Through character actions they can accelerate the rise in technology to the 
next age or retard it back to the previous age/campaign.  For instance: the 
current real time would be "Against the Drug Lords".  The campaign mechanism 
is the Planetary Sobriety Level (PSL) which starts at 10.5  When the 
characters encounter an NPC the GM rolls 3D.  If he rolls the PSL or less 
then the NPC is sober, otherwise they are on something.
    By campaigning against, or for, the drug lords they can alter the 
sobriety of the planet.  if the PSL is raised to 16 then train wrecks stop 
happening, planes stop crashing, and actual space exploration becomes 
possible.  The campaign then shifts into Building a New Civilization which 
deals with the inner soloar system.  If the Planetary Sobriety Level is 
reduced to 5 then civilization collapses, magic re-enters the world, and the 
campaign retrogrades to the previous.  In this case Renaisance Colony.
    The players had a lot of fun with this too.  They would make time gates 
between campaigns and use resouces from other times.  I have found that 
players like having access to these kind of resouces.  Anything they could 
think up they could probably find in some time or another.  It had the 
effect of unleashing their imagination and creativity.  That and it was easy 
for them to bring in characters from any other campaign they had played in.

    David Michael Grouchy.
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