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When you say that the Ether can be molded...does this mean that you can make any type of city you want? For example... A Victorian Disneyland could be next to medevil Ether dungeon? And does Ether exist alongside it's Material Plane counterparts? Yes, Scope cities can be pretty much whatever you li...

Ben, I have a question about Scope Use(remote) and Scope Avatars. I can't seem to find any clear rule on if you are "remoting" into the scope that you need to have an Avatar. If the Avatar is a scope representation of your physical form, wouldn't you have to be "immersed" to hav...

1) Can someone check my understanding to see if am I missing something as to the purpose of Scope riding? I'm thinking the following fit, but there are some things I don't understand. Okay, lets have a look :) Fun - The pleasure domes are pretty self-explanatory. I can grasp this with ease. Fun to ...

Details, man, dammit, we need details! :) You're a man after my own heart - I always need to see a reason for how everything works in a scifi world :). For example, at one point, a pistol is mentioned as having a laser sight. That's fairly developed electronics and minitureization. As far as I'm aw...

Crikey! Loads of questions here. I'll try to answer them one by one .

Ben

Sorry, those last two posts were me. Forgot to log in .

Ben

:) I've been mulling something like this over since I got Sidewinder. There is Spell Slinger out there already by Fantasy Flight (which is probably why no one else is likely to publish something along these lines), but it's not the sort of thing I was looking for -- I wanted a fantasy game that was ...

Hi folks,

There's a new design blog entry over at the Malladin's Gate website:
http://www.malladinsgate.com/designblog ... -22&Item=1&

This one's about how we went about designing the Scope systems for the game.

Cheerio,

Ben

Any chance of a retro sourcebook? aka 17th 18th century tech/steampunk? Or will there be notes for a D20 Past type campaign using the setting? THere's not really any consideration of a retro sourcebook or conversion notes. The divergence point in the history is in the 1870s, so earlier than the 20t...

I'd just like to echo these thoughts from a contributor's point of view. When we first started to look for a publisher for Etherscope we did so with trepidation that our beloved world would be hacked and changed to make it more "marketable". Joseph saw imediately the potential for the sett...

Ben, were any of Malladin Gate's staff down at Gen-Con? I didn't bump into anyone who worked on Etherscope, but the con was huge. If you were down there, I'm sorry I didn't bump into you! No, we're too far away, plus it clashed with a big party for my parents (who are leaving to do charity work in ...

It sounds like being on or gaing with the GG team seems like the place to be at GenCon!!

Can't wait for next year - I'm starting saving for my air fare across "the pond" now (they've doubled since I was looking last year, though )

Ben (Etherscope co-creator)

Hey Kris, great to hear from another manchester-based chap. Its not you I've chatted with on the Vampire boards on the WW site is it? I would say that you can use the system for cinematic gaming. I think D20 Modern made steps towards this direction from the D&D base, and I'd like to think we've ...

Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like Etherscope will be my kind of game in terms of mechanics and focus, which is a shame, as the background sounded very intriguing. C'est la via, no game can be to everyone's tastes, and I still wish you the best of luck with it. :) Colin, I'm sorry I've not been a...

And yet another question: How much of the core Etherscope book is devoted to rules, and how much to setting? I'm not sure it'd be right to tell you this, and I wouldn't know the exact figure anyway. Its a complete game, so its got the full D20 ruleset, along with all our new rules. As far as the se...

Another question, I'm afraid. :wink: Does Etherscope assume or otherwise, the use or miniatures/counters in its combat rules? I think it's fair to say that it assumes miniatures, given that it's pretty much based around the core D20 system combat mechanics. That said, I've done all my playtesting w...

You mention taking a fairly big step away from d20 Modern in terms of rules, and note a number of additional rules elements. My question concerns the overall complexity of basic elements of the system. Would you say Etherscope is more streamlined than d20 Modern, on a par complexity wise, or does i...

How much of Etherscope would you call it Steampunk? That depends entirely on how you define Steampunk, which is largely why we refer to it as cyberpunk Victioriana. Steampunk means different things to different people. Its certainly go lots of steampunk elements, and steampunk fans I'm sure will li...

When you say spiral out of control, how do you mean. Can you give some more examples? Sorry, I perhaps use "spiralled out of control" a little excessively. I just mean that we needed about a century top allow for all the tech changes that we needed so that the world can have cyberpunk tec...

excellent! To start off: 1. Are you using d20 Modern as a base? and what new mechanics will you have? 2. Why 1984? 3. Who are the artists for the book? 4. Can you "fly" to Mars (and Venus, the moon, and Saturn) 5. What are "Lemurians?" 6. Will it have supernatural creatures (oth...

As requested I'm taking questions on Etherscope. I'll warn you now, though that I'm not going to be able to give away any great secrets, but if I can answer your questions I will.

So, ask away...

Ben Redmond (Etherscope co-creator)

Ben, I look forward to Etherscope. I'm not too keen on cyberpunk (except for Shadowrun) but I am fanatical about Victorian settings. Could I ask a few questions about the setting? Sure. I'll start another thread, though. I didn't intend this thread to be about Etherscope. I'm interested in the fan ...

I love DCC and the Wanderer's Guild, but I have little to no interest in the rest of the products. I think that's kind of what I was expecting. I've noticed from my lurking days that there seems to be one group of fans for DCC and similar generics, and another for the more "adventurous" (...

I've been lurking here for a few months now and have only just bothered to create an account and post something, but I've got a question for all you DCC fans out there (and everyone elso, too, I suppose). I am interested to know how much the support for the understandably popular DCC line becomes Go...