Re: Still out there?

>From: Michael Billard <billardm@???????.net>
>Reply-To: Discussion list for the Spelljammer campaign setting
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>Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Still out there?
>Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:01:03 -0700
>
>" Hello?  Is this list still active?  I haven't seen anything from it in
>a
>while."
>
>I still want to build a Homeworld-like computer game with fantasy ships.
>But since Atari owns all the computer game rights to D&D settings,
>there's no chance of me making a Spelljammer mass combat game. I have
>since decided to create my own fantasy space universe and don't really
>do much with Spelljammer anymore. It's a home brew design from the
>setting to the rules used. I've even got my own copyright on the
>material. :)

You technically have a copyright on this email.  All you need to do to get a
copyright is put an original idea down in a fixed medium.

Now if you had a spelljammer patent, that would be impressive.

>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Discussion list for the Spelljammer campaign setting
>[mailto:SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com] On Behalf Of Danton May
>Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:28 AM
>To: SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com
>Subject: [SPELLJAMMER] Still out there?
>
>Hello?  Is this list still active?  I haven't seen anything from it in a
>while.  So tell me, where do you think illithids originated?  I was
>reading
>in the illithiad, and it suggests they came form outside the space-time
>continuum.  I'm thinking of renaming them the "Children of Cthulu" in my
>spelljamming campaign, and saying they come form an alternate universe
>and
>are actually several races - mindflayers, korpu, and another one I made
>up.
>They are all related because they were spawned by Cthulu, which is from
>an
>indescribable universe or dimension.
>
>The speljammer galaxy I have made was never really touched by the
>inhuman
>wars, but was torn by a huge war called the Illithid War, so the
>illithids
>are major players here.  Them and elves.  The elves came into the galaxy
>only at the tail end of the Illithid Wars, and luckily for them the gith
>revolted a few thousand years after they entered the war and this broke
>the
>illithid empire.  Now the elves are a major power, but they are
>ultra-paranoid and hunt or guard the illithids zealously wherever they
>are
>known to exist.
>
>There is even a star system with a ruined penumbra in it.  Instead of
>the
>penumbra being a singular entity, as it was in the illithid adventures,
>there were at least three knwon ones existing, and maybe more.  You have
>to
>understand how huge the illithid empire was.  It didn't just span
>galaxies,
>it spanned planes of existence, universes, and dimensions.  One of the
>penumbras was in my galaxy, draining a star.  When the star was drained,
>it
>could phase shift to another star system, where it would drain it's star
>over several hundred years.  All the penumbras were like this, but it
>took
>them hundreds of years to drain a star, and they needed the fuel of a
>drained star to phase shift to another star system.
>
>Near the end of the illithid war, the elves and dragons united and
>attacked
>the penumbra in my galaxy, and shattered it, breaking the illithid's
>power
>and presence in the galaxy.  Chased by the elves, dragons, and the gith,
>they fled and only held on in various worlds they had colonized or that
>they
>crash-landed on.
>
>Well, I just put that all out to start conversation and see if this list
>is
>still alive.  Let me know what you think.  That AstroSynthesis program
>by
>NBOS rules, I've been putting my galaxy together with it, and it's
>turning
>out pretty kewl.  Got the head almost finished, with all the elven and
>illithid strongholds in it.  I'm ready for more war!
>
>- Coyote, the Desert Dog
>
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