GURPS Infinite Earths
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I dont have the Basic Rule book yet, but I have Infinate Earths.... What are Control Ratings (CR), and any other place I can find out what the scale of them are?
Sounds like a good game book, but I'm waiting for SJG's worldbook for Girl Genius.
David S Poepoe
Banned
Diamond said:
Pyramid Magazine, number 15, September/October 1995
More timelines for GURPS Time Travel by Thomas Cron
Covers ATL: Technate, Albany, Moonstrike, Waldensia, Christian China, Pogo, Null-Pasteur, Macedonia-Weird, Emperor Burr, Vinland, St. Paul's Russia, Lightbend, Trotsky, Kirby and Spacenixon.
Count Deerborn said:
I just saw Kaja and Phil at Norwescon, Kaja's working on it, as fast as she can!
Control Rating
Control Rating is similar to Traveller's Law Level--higher numbers reflect a more regulated society. A CR of zero may allow personal posession of nuclear weapons, while a CR of six likely has survielance cameras everywhere, thought police if such are within the scientific/magical/psionic capabilities of the world.
Naturally, on such a small scale, there are vast variations between one CR 4 society and another.
Control Rating is similar to Traveller's Law Level--higher numbers reflect a more regulated society. A CR of zero may allow personal posession of nuclear weapons, while a CR of six likely has survielance cameras everywhere, thought police if such are within the scientific/magical/psionic capabilities of the world.
Naturally, on such a small scale, there are vast variations between one CR 4 society and another.
Straha
Banned
http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=1427
heres a link to the Pyramid sample article with the alternates
heres a link to the Pyramid sample article with the alternates
Interesting. Some of this stuff is kinda nutty, but I suppose that is to be expected.Straha said:
One of my favorite Weird parallels:
Macedonia-Weird
The existence of this Quantum 3 timeline offers proof that history and humanity can take some very strange paths. Here, Alexander the Great survived malaria in 323 B.C. and went on to conquer Rome, Carthage and China. His descendents colonized the Americas, unified the Amerinds, wrote the ultimate encyclopedia and built steam-powered vehicles. By 1400, a world Macedonian state existed.
It was about 1500 that things started getting weird. A cadre of officers took over the Macedonian moon colonies in that year and seceded from Earth. The development of near-sentient computers in the 1540s resulted in the formation of an illegal underground organization called the Technos Legion, dedicated to a rule by scientists. The similarity of the Legion to the rulers of Centrum is frightening. An eccentric genius, Arelo Destos, reputed to be a member of the Alexandrian royal family, achieved an engine capable of pushing a spaceship to three-fourths the speed of light in 1589, and the Great Colonization began. Hundreds of thousands of Earthlings colonized hundreds of worlds, enlarging the Macedonian Empire to a mind-boggling size. This in turn led to the Earth-Jazdan War of 1620-1642, an interstellar war with the fascist Jazdan Empire, a race of insectoid aliens. The war ended with a cease-fire. A new complication to a very complicated culture was added in 1710 with the founding of the Institute for Psychic Studies Ð a school that taught its students how to harnass psychic and psionic powers. By 1740, thousands of people were using psi powers.
By 1805, the Macedonian civilization was at Tech Level 13 and very aggressive under its arrogant ruler, Alexander XXXX. That was the year the Lunar Republic, aided by the Jazdans, nuked Earth with over 400 nuclear warheads. Civilization was destroyed and the Lunans and Jazdans divided the planet between them, each planning to betray the other when expedient. The Jazdans were wiped out with a genetically engineered virus in 1866, leaving the Lunans in control of the Earth. Today Ð the current year is 1996 Ð Earth is a wasteland inhabited by mutants, psi-powered descendents of survivors, animals evolving sapience and the still-extant Technos Legion. Current Tech Level for the Earthlings is 5, the Lunans, 13.
Needless to say, this timeline is off-limits to everybody but the highest echelons of Infinity and the I-Cops. If any of the disparate peoples of Macedonia- Weird get hold of a conveyor, they would have their own within a year. What's more, some of the mutants and psis might develop world-jumping powers. This Quantum 4 timeline is a major headache for Homeline.
Macedonia-Weird
The existence of this Quantum 3 timeline offers proof that history and humanity can take some very strange paths. Here, Alexander the Great survived malaria in 323 B.C. and went on to conquer Rome, Carthage and China. His descendents colonized the Americas, unified the Amerinds, wrote the ultimate encyclopedia and built steam-powered vehicles. By 1400, a world Macedonian state existed.
It was about 1500 that things started getting weird. A cadre of officers took over the Macedonian moon colonies in that year and seceded from Earth. The development of near-sentient computers in the 1540s resulted in the formation of an illegal underground organization called the Technos Legion, dedicated to a rule by scientists. The similarity of the Legion to the rulers of Centrum is frightening. An eccentric genius, Arelo Destos, reputed to be a member of the Alexandrian royal family, achieved an engine capable of pushing a spaceship to three-fourths the speed of light in 1589, and the Great Colonization began. Hundreds of thousands of Earthlings colonized hundreds of worlds, enlarging the Macedonian Empire to a mind-boggling size. This in turn led to the Earth-Jazdan War of 1620-1642, an interstellar war with the fascist Jazdan Empire, a race of insectoid aliens. The war ended with a cease-fire. A new complication to a very complicated culture was added in 1710 with the founding of the Institute for Psychic Studies Ð a school that taught its students how to harnass psychic and psionic powers. By 1740, thousands of people were using psi powers.
By 1805, the Macedonian civilization was at Tech Level 13 and very aggressive under its arrogant ruler, Alexander XXXX. That was the year the Lunar Republic, aided by the Jazdans, nuked Earth with over 400 nuclear warheads. Civilization was destroyed and the Lunans and Jazdans divided the planet between them, each planning to betray the other when expedient. The Jazdans were wiped out with a genetically engineered virus in 1866, leaving the Lunans in control of the Earth. Today Ð the current year is 1996 Ð Earth is a wasteland inhabited by mutants, psi-powered descendents of survivors, animals evolving sapience and the still-extant Technos Legion. Current Tech Level for the Earthlings is 5, the Lunans, 13.
Needless to say, this timeline is off-limits to everybody but the highest echelons of Infinity and the I-Cops. If any of the disparate peoples of Macedonia- Weird get hold of a conveyor, they would have their own within a year. What's more, some of the mutants and psis might develop world-jumping powers. This Quantum 4 timeline is a major headache for Homeline.
I remember one Reich had an atomic war between Germany and Japan (Germany won a Pyrric victory). Another has a kind of Cold War between America and Germany. Yet another has America all that is left of Democracy, fighting a losing war with the Reich. These are by memory...I sold my books to move into my little apartment.