Re: SotSM and Re: Dragon 315 Revists Old Settings

>From: "George \"Loki\" Williams" <chaos93@?????????.net>

>The alternate primes such as Gamma World co-exist with the Prime of SJ, but
>at different vibratory ratios.
>This take on things goes back to the days of 1980 when there was little
>bedside's Greyhawk and is derived from a combination of the Alternate
>Earths
>presented in DC comics and Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion Cycle
>(another reason I like d20, Dragonlords of Melnibone)
>  Usually Pc's make the jump when they suffer a retributive strike
>(remember
>those from 1st Ed?) and are forcibly blown across the vibratory barrier. It
>is generally a VERY disconcerting event that causes disorientation, damage
>to characters and equipment, and sometimes insanity. Eventually the PC's in
>this game are going to make the traditional Crossrip Journey and end up in
>Gamma World and in Dragonstar. My working idea at this point is having it
>be
>the side effect of tampering with/destroying an artifact. They will
>experience an acid trip style journey not unlike the one David Bowman had
>when going through the Monolinth in 2001:A Space Odyssey. There will be
>will
>saves to avoid insanities resulting from the shift, as well as the chances
>of psionic/ magical backlash caused by the transition from one set of
>Physics to another.

Bingo!  This one clicks.  Good description.  Thank you!  Far back in the
history of my main crystal sphere, several races that used technology rather
than magic came to the crystal sphere and colonized it.  Their histories
helped shape the histories of the planets in this sphere.  But I've been
throwing around a way to describe how they came from one universe or galaxy
to my spelljamming galaxy.  A controlled way to manipulate transitions
through this vibratory barrier would work.  It is a way to make physics and
magic work.  Not important to some, but it is to me.  They came from places
like the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy to the Shining Wyrm
Galaxy, which is made up of pholgiston and traditional spelljammer-style
crystal spheres, by purposely altering the vibratatory rates their fleets of
ships existed at.  I'll say they could 'scan' other vibratory states and
determine which ones may potentially be habitable, enabling them to pick and
choose some states for exploration.  They had to leave thier old state and
come to this state because of a disaster in the case of the first race and
conquest in the case of the second.  They brought all their technology and
non-magical devices with them when they came across, and they understood
enough about how the laws of physics changed when they came that they could
make these devices continue to work.  They were like the race that made the
monolith in 2001, the one the main character visits in the end.  And they
came to my campaign setting, thus, setting the stage for massive wars
between magic weilding races such as dragons and elves and these technology
using races.  You have one side using nukes against the other, and the other
side using the elves' secret version of the withchlight marauder, Slyvanus'
Wrath, and massive dragons bigger than mountains with breath weapons that
are stronger than nuclear weapons.  It was all very cool and devastating.

Anyway, thanks.  Your description worked, it's the one I'm going to use.
Thank you very much.

- Coyote, the Desert Dog

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