Re: SotSM and Re: Dragon 315 Revists Old Settings

Personal inspiration for my games is Moorcock's Eternal Champion series....
Glad you found that useful...
Loki, DM
Warriors of the Balance: The Rise of Dukagsh Campaign
New Orleans, La

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From: "Nancy E (Lea) Hall" <kenalepha@?????.com>
To: <SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] SotSM and Re: [SPELLJAMMER] 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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