Re: SotSM and Re: Dragon 315 Revists Old Settings

> 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 phlogiston and
> traditional spelljammer-style
> crystal spheres, by purposely altering the
> vibratory 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 their 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 wielding 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
>
Another piece of Sci Fi you should check out is
Heinlein's Number of the Beast (I want a small
intelligent ship like the Gay Deceiver) This book
deals with alternate realities and escaping disaster
in one reality by going to alternate primes.

There is also a series by Lyndon Hardy which includes
The Master of the 5 Magics, Secret of the Sixth Magic
and Riddle of the Seven Realms which goes into much
detail about the differences in reality from one prime
to another (Metamagic). Specifically the last book
goes into that, but the whole series is good.

Remember, not all ideas need to come from
TSR/WoTC/etc. Just because a book is specifically
about a different type or style of fiction does not
mean it is bad or wrong.

Lea

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